Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.