Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?" "No." He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself.
W. Somerset MaughamThe worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too. [The human element]
W. Somerset MaughamArt, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.
W. Somerset MaughamI don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
W. Somerset Maugham