They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him.
W. Somerset MaughamBy the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but a few.
W. Somerset MaughamDeath doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
W. Somerset MaughamNo married man's ever made up his mind until he's heard what his wife has got to say about it.
W. Somerset MaughamWhen a man's in love, he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on the top of them with his arms akimbo. When a woman's in love she doesn't care two straws for Thou Shalt and Thou Shalt Not.
W. Somerset MaughamThe arguments for immortality, weak when you take them one by one, are no more cogent when you take them together... For my part, I cannot see how consciousness can persist when its physical basis has been destroyed, and I am too sure of the interconnection of my body and my mind to think that any survival of my my consciousness apart from my body would be in any sense a survival of myself.
W. Somerset Maugham