More quotes by W. Somerset Maugham

"When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character."
"The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill."
"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."
"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."