When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a religious man and he read prayers to the assembled household every morning. But he had crossed out in pencil all the passages that praised God. He said that there was nothing so vulgar as to praise people to their faces and, himself a gentleman, he could not believe that God was so ungentlemanly as to like it.
W. Somerset MaughamIf people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now.
W. Somerset MaughamIn heaven, when the blessed use the telephone they will say what they have to say and not a word besides.
W. Somerset MaughamA good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.
W. Somerset Maugham