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
writing character passion
If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.
life friendship time
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.
behind-the-scenes illusion fame
It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
long-ago best-effort mind
I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
funny life happiness
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
women men faults
If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.
beautiful essence unity
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
life book reading
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
inspirational life failure
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
determination funny-things want
Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
freedom patriotic libertarian-party
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
freedom things-in-life two
There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
men association sometimes
Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
mean difficult
I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.