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
wise doubt age
Our wise old church...has discovered that if you will act as if you believed belief will be given to you; if you pray with doubt, but pray with sincerity, your doubt will be dispelled; if you will surrender yourself to the beauty of that liturgy the power of which over the human spirit has been proved by the experience of the ages, peace will descend upon you.
maturity perfect age
For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
age aging grows
When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.
men long age
By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.
judging age mature
We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
time lost-youth age
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
birthday time age
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
high-school age emotion
When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.
time memories age
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
carry discovered earliest nonsense wiser
From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
english expect hope perfection women
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.
happens love man woman
Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.
befall boy bring consequences few worse
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.
cute chance life-is
Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.