The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham Quotes

“If all else perish, there will remain8 a story-teller’s world from Singapore to the Marquesas that is exclusively and forever Maugham, a world of veranda and prahu which we enter, as we do that of Conan Doyle’s Baker Street, with a sense of happy and eternal homecoming.”
― Selina Hastings, The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham: A Biography

“If you want to go to bed with me you can,” she said, “but I won’t marry you.”
― Selina Hastings, The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham: A Biography