The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.

- W. Somerset Maugham

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

- W. Somerset Maugham

The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. W…

- W. Somerset Maugham

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

- W. Somerset Maugham

Tolerance is only another name for indifference.

- W. Somerset Maugham

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.

- W. Somerset Maugham

It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.

- W. Somerset Maugham

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, i…

- W. Somerset Maugham

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it whil…

- W. Somerset Maugham