W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it. Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable. Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets. 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 horror. No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. Only a mediocre person is always at his best. People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull. Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved. Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way. She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill. 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. The crown of literature is poetry.
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