13 Quotes by William Somerset Maugham

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Milk is very nice, especially with a drop of brandy in it, but the domestic cow is only too glad to be rid of it. A swollen udder is very uncomfortable

She gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer. "You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You're all the same, all of you. Pigs! Pigs!

...some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not.

I will continue to write moral stories in rhymed couplets. But I should be thrice a fool if I did it for aught but my own entertainment.

Dying is a dull, dreary affair. my advice is that you have nothing whatever to with it.

Se cree un genio, pero está equivocado. El genio supone una capacidad infinita de trabajo. Lo único que hace falta es trabajar. Si uno se empeña en llegar, llega.

Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion...

And then he felt the misery of his life.