W. Somerset Maugham

“The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.”

“Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.”

“Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.”

“The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.”

“Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable.”

“The crown of literature is poetry.”

“The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.”

“You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.”

“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.”