W. Somerset Maugham Quotes & Sayings

85 most famous W. Somerset Maugham quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was a British playwright who passed away on 15 December, 1965.

“We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.”

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

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

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

“I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.”

“Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.”

“Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.”

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

“In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.”