W. Somerset Maugham

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species…

Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the…

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the…

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent…

Beauty is an ecstasy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to…

Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets…

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental…

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the…

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too…

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it’s a mistake to make a…

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance…

The crown of literature is poetry…

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams…

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature…

Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its…