W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

Hard work never hurt anyone who hired someone else to do it.

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

Our affluence has allowed us to move to a place where we tend to make things pleasurable, as opposed to efficient.

I have reached a state in life where I can buy a whole house full of chairs and can bump into them until they are black and blue.

Never do yourself, what you can con professionals into doing for you.

Luxury will be always around, no matter what happens in the world.

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

I always write back to people who are kind enough to write to me. Actually, I don't write - I recline on my red velvet sofa with my feet on the coffee table and dictate the letters to my eldest son.

I haven't turned into some rich monster. I've kept my perspective. But I am a bit spoiled. It's hard not to be a little spoiled by having a lot of money.

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

And now I have a big house, nice clothes and I travel in first class and I love it, so maybe it's time to enjoy being a star.

If at first you don't succeed, pay someone else to do it for you.

Luxury is a state of mind.

To be in a band on the road is to have anything and everything you want just by picking up the phone.

Everyone keeps asking me, What are you doing? I say, Why do I need to do anything? I'm rich.

When you're 23, 24 years old and somebody's given you a credit card and jets and limos and you don't have to pay the bill when it comes in - that's a pretty nice deal.

I used to have a gym in the house. I thought that was a fantastic luxury.

I never do any brainwork that anyone else can do for me

It would be all right with me. I'd probably get a car and driver out of it.

…luxury is the result of wealth, or it makes wealth necessary. It corrupts both rich and poor, the one by possessing, the other by coveting. It sells out the fatherland to indolence and vanity; it deprives the State of all its Citizens by enslaving some of them to others and all of them to opinion.

When you have an almost unlimited amount of money, you can pay people to do almost anything.

My hair routine is to let someone else do it.

I think art comes out of meaningful experiences, and it's hard to make art when your meaningful experience is getting into your electric car and driving from your fancy house in the Hills to your fancy job in the Valley.