Somerset Maugham Quotes

Somerset Maugham Quotes

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands ... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.