W. Somerset Maugham

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.

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

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.