W. Somerset Maugham
W. Somerset Maugham
William Somerset Maugham CHwas a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest paid author during the 1930s...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth25 January 1874
diversity tolerance social-justice
Tolerance is another word for indifference.
common-sense sticks common
Have common sense and stick to the point.
air blue sky
Sometimes the road was only a lane, with thick hawthorne hedges, and the green elms overhung it on either side so that when you looked up there was only a strip of blue sky between. And as you rode along in the warm, keen air you had a sensation that the world was standing still and life would last forever. Although you were pedaling with such energy you had a delicious feeling of laziness.
running book men
Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit, and I suppose that this is neither innocent or praiseworthy. Of that lamentable company am I. Conversation after a time bores me, games tire me and my own thoughts, which we are told are the unfailing resource of a sensible man, have a tendency to run dry. Then I fly to my book as the opium-smoker to his pipe.
time lost-youth age
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
country travel coffee
Some American delusions: 1) That there is no class-consciousness in the country. 2) That American coffee is good. 3) That Americans are business-like. 4) That Americans are highly-sexed and that redheads are more highly sexed than others.
littles heavy ifs
If only the good were a little less heavy-footed
action conventions
No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention.
death dying world
Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of 'natural causes'.
learning finals examination
You will have to learn many tedious things,...which you will forget the moment you have passed your final examination, but in anatomy it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.
men community welfare
A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.
heart winning way
There is only one way to win hearts and that is to make oneself like unto those of whom one would be loved.
inspirational life death
Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
anger political world
The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.