MAUGHAM

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

It is a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

It wasn't until quite late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, "I don't know."

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

People are never so ready to believe you as when you say things in dispraise of yourself; and you are never so much annoyed as when they take you at your word.

People ask you for criticism but they only want praise.

People will sometimes forgive you the good you have done them, but seldom the harm they have done you.

The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.

There is no need for the writer to eat a whole sheep to be able to tell what mutton tastes like. It is enough if he eats a cutlet.

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.