If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
W. Somerset MaughamLove is not always blind and there are few things that cause greater wretchedness than to love with all your heart someone who you know is unworthy of love.
W. Somerset MaughamThere is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood.
W. Somerset MaughamThe audience is not the least important actor in the play and if it will not do its allotted share the play falls to pieces.
W. Somerset Maugham