Somerset MaughamThinkers

Contentment is important — If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.

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

A Dinner party is an event where we should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

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

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

Marriage is a very good thing, but it's a mistake to make a habit of it.

Mediocrity is always at its best.

Money 1s 2alue is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil

The Novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.

An Optimist is a person who sees green light everywhere. The pessimist sees only the red stop light. But truly the wise person is colour blind.