793 Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham

The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.

He exulted in the possession of himself once more; he realized how much of the delight of the world he had lost when he was absorbed in that madness which they called love; he had had enough of it; he did not want to be in love anymore if love was that.

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

Sherry, the civilized drink.

There are few things so pleasant as a picnic eaten in perfect comfort.

No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman.

He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.