Category: Quote of the Day

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

William Somerset Maugham

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

William Somerset Maugham

It’s asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic.

William Somerset Maugham

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

William Somerset Maugham

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

William Somerset Maugham

I have been forced to conclude from this that we know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.

William Somerset Maugham

Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.

William Somerset Maugham

Now it is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it…

William Somerset Maugham

Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.

William Somerset Maugham

People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.

William Somerset Maugham