Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed.
W. Somerset MaughamMake him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.
W. Somerset MaughamIf nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
W. Somerset MaughamThe arguments for immortality, weak when you take them one by one, are no more cogent when you take them together... For my part, I cannot see how consciousness can persist when its physical basis has been destroyed, and I am too sure of the interconnection of my body and my mind to think that any survival of my my consciousness apart from my body would be in any sense a survival of myself.
W. Somerset Maugham