Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.