Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)

Quotes

• 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.