I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
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 MaughamThe great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible. You never come to the end of the surprises he has in store for you.
W. Somerset MaughamThey say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him.
W. Somerset Maugham