W. Somerset Maugham: Quotes

• Conformity

  It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.W. Somerset Maugham: The Moon and Sixpence

• Consequences

  You can do anything in this world if you're prepared to take the consequences.W. Somerset Maugham: The Circle

• Consistency

  Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.W. Somerset Maugham: Of Human Bondage

• Criticism and Critics

  People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.W. Somerset Maugham: Of Human Bondage

• Excess

  Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.W. Somerset Maugham: The Summing Up

• Humor and Wit

  Impropriety is the soul of wit.W. Somerset Maugham: The Moon and Sixpence

• Manners

  At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.W. Somerset Maugham: A Writer's Notebook

• Money

  Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.W. Somerset Maugham: Of Human Bondage

• Pain and Suffering

  It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.W. Somerset Maugham: The Moon and Sixpence

• Women

  A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favorite form of self-indulgence.W. Somerset Maugham: The Circle