Quotes contributed by members of Famous Quotes and Famous Sayings at The Famous Quotes List.

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. 
There is really nothing to be said about it. 
It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all 
--W. Somerset Maugham 

I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good 
to do each day two things they disliked...it is a precept that 
I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and 
I have gone to bed. 
--W. Somerset Maugham 

You can`t learn too soon that the most useful thing about 
a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. 
--W. Somerset Maugham 

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved. 
--W. Somerset Maugham 1915 

A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. 
It is her favorite form of self-indulgence 
--W. Somerset Maugham 

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. 
--W. Somerset Maugham 

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is 
to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. 
--W. Somerset Maugham author