Somerset Maugham

The unfortunate thing about this word is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.

I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.

People are never so ready to believe you as when you say things in dispraise of yourself; and you are never so much annoyed as when they take you at your word.

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

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

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.