Selected Quotes of W. Somerset Maugham

"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. "

   --W. Somerset Maugham

"Only a mediocre person is always at his best. "

   --W. Somerset Maugham

"Love is what happens to men and women who don‘t know each other. "

   --W. Somerset Maugham

"The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love. "

   --W. Somerset Maugham