W. Somerset Maugham

"The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love."

- W. Somerset Maugham

"We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person."

- W. Somerset Maugham

"Only a mediocre person is always at his best"

- W. Somerset Maugham

"I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art."

- W. Somerset Maugham

"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life."

- W. Somerset Maugham

"A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account."

- W. Somerset Maugham

"Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it."

- W. Somerset Maugham

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

- W. Somerset Maugham

"Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind."

- W. Somerset Maugham

"Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it."

- W. Somerset Maugham