William Somerset Maugham

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

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.

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

You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

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

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

The tragedy of love is indifference.