We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. - W. Somerset Maugham. View more images...

Life isn't long enough for love and art. - W. Somerset Maugham. View more images...

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved. - W. Somerset Maugham . View more images...

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation. - W. Somerset Maugham. View more images...

It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. - W. Somerset Maugham. View more images...

It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it. - W. Somerset Maugham. View more images...

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. - W. Somerset Maugham. View more images...

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account. - W. Somerset Maugham . View more images...

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are. - W. Somerset Maugham . View more images...

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

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. - W. Somerset Maugham. View more images...

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. - W. Somerset Maugham. View more images...

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. - W. Somerset Maugham. View more images...

The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned. - W. Somerset Maugham. View more images...