Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

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, it will lose that too.

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

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

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.