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 giving desire
I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness either for himself or for others; there is in love a sense of weakness, a desire to protect, an eagerness to do good and to give pleasure--if not unselfishness, at all events a selfishness which marvellously conceals itself; it has in it a certain diffidence.
believe men thinking
I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues.
work believe expected
Success. I don't believe it has any effect on me. For one thing I always expected it.
atheist believe common-sense
I cannot believe in a God who has neither humor nor common sense.
philosophy believe reason
It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.
life believe men
Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe.
love believe men
The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.
drama believe doe
The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect.
god jobs believe
We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.
believe religion unitarian
A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes.
motivational change believe
If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
believe people guarantees
The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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.