W Somerset Maugham quotes

" There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are. " # Writers and Writing # Fiction # Books - Reading

" It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. " # Expectation # Humor # Life and Living

" At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. " # Politicians and Politics # Food and Eating # Wisdom

" The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned. " # Love

" Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. " # Death and Dying # Courage # Advice

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

" The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love. " # Love # Tragedies # Life and Living

" Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species. " # Love # Friends and Friendship # Humankind

" When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. " # Friends and Friendship # Change # Character

" People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. " # Critics and Criticism