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
believe people guarantees
The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
lonely heart together
Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain. We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
kindness people young
When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
character men rivers
He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water. But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
life famous-love art
Life isn't long enough for love and art.
zest three feminine
It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.
track toss chosen
Its a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, few are chosen.
mother daughter simple
if you'd ever had a grown-up daughter you'd know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her - well, it's much better to pretend you're the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
inspirational life happiness
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
truth telling-the-truth epigrams
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
inspirational funny death
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
home men land
Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs. Here is the home he sought, and he will settle amid scenes that he has never seen before, among men he has never known, as though they were familiar to him from his birth. Here at last he finds rest.
writing effort style
A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.
love life important
The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.