793 Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham

When you choose your friends, don’t be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

There are many foolish people in the world and when a man in a rather high position puts on no frills, slaps them on the back, and tells them he’ll do anything in the world for them, they are very likely to think him clever.

Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?? The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly. Oh, my dear, it’s rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he’s in love with you.? Didn’t you mean them?? At the moment.

I’m only twenty-five. If I’ve made a mistake I have time to correct it.

She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.

The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice.

I don’t think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I’m sure it’s very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves when they have ideas.

No woman is worth more than a fiver unless you’re in love with her. Then she’s worth all she costs you.

It takes two to make a love affair and a mans meat is too often a woman’s poison.