More quotes by W. Somerset Maugham

"Impropriety is the soul of wit."
"Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul."
"You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance."
"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."
"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?"