More from William Somerset Maugham

  1. Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
  2. [Money] is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.
  3. What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Camb…
  4. My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and h…
  5. What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
  6. You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
  7. It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
  8. It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for they are full of th…

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