W. Somerset Maugham

If 50 million people say something foolish, it is still foolish. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#humor #humor

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#jailer #tradition

She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#love

She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#love #marriage #women #love

To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#food #food

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#belief #broadcast #fill #hardly #horror

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#death

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news? ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#change #forever #good #good news #life

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? ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#observation #resignation #wisdom #inspirational

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#achieve #continuation #dirty #love is #only