Quotes by : W. Somerset Maugham

I only wanted to suggest to you that self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even....

I'm one of the few persons I ever met who are able to learn from experience.

Supposing there is no life everlasting. Think what it means if death is really the end of all things.....

Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.

It’s hard not to be impatient with the absurdity of the young; they tell us that two and two make four....

What did it all mean? He thought of his own life, the high hopes with which he had entered upon it, the....

I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit,....

If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't....

Character? I should have thought it needed a good deal of character to throw up a career after half an....