More quotes by W. Somerset Maugham

"Only a mediocre person is always at his best."
"When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character."
"The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind."
"Impropriety is the soul of wit."
"What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?"