Quotes by William Somerset Maugham

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

#Action

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

#Love

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

#Humor

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the...

#Humor

Money is like a sixth sense - and you can't make use of the other...

#Money

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

#Money

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the...

#Money

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of...

#Beauty, #Chaos

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to...

#Beauty

Beauty is a bit of a bore.

#Beauty, #Boredom

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have...

#Advice

You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct

#Adultery, #Sex