More quotes by W. Somerset Maugham

"You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance."
"We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to."
"The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love."
"Only a mediocre person is always at his best."
"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."