More quotes by W. Somerset Maugham

"When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character."
"We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to."
"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?"
"The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes."
"Impropriety is the soul of wit."