More quotes by W. Somerset Maugham

"Impropriety is the soul of wit."
"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."
"When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character."
"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."