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
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.
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The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.
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I cannot believe in a God who has neither humor nor common sense.
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It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated.
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Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.
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Have common sense and stick to the point.
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A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.
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I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.
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Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.
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No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.
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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.
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Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.
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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.
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Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.