More quotes by W. Somerset Maugham

"When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character."
"Impropriety is the soul of wit."
"I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation."
"The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you."
"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."