W. Somerset Maugham

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

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you’re…

It’s a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best…

There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action…

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of…

The world in general doesn’t know what to make of originality it is startled out…

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon…