Get the Quote of the Day from W. Somerset Maugham
When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.
One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.
Who can explain the Infinite in words?
The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.
The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
We are the greatest idealists in the world; I happen to think that we've set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.
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