The mathematician who after seeing Phedre asked: 'Qu'est que ca prouve?' was not such a fool as he has been generally made out. No one has ever been able to explain why the Doric temple of Paestum is more beautiful than a glass of cold beer except by bringing in considerations that have nothing to do with beauty.
W. Somerset MaughamThe most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
W. Somerset MaughamThe artist can within limits make what he likes of his life... It is only the artist, and maybe the criminal, who can make his own.
W. Somerset MaughamI never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull.
W. Somerset Maugham