I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull.
W. Somerset MaughamSometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
W. Somerset MaughamIt takes two to make a love affair and a mans meat is too often a woman's poison.
W. Somerset MaughamThere was once a professor of law who said to his students. When you are fighting a case, if you have facts on your side hammer them into the jury, and if you have the law on your side hammer it into the judge. But if you have neither the facts nor the law, asked one of his listeners? Then hammer the hell into the table, answered the professor.
W. Somerset Maugham