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
falling-in-love men might
With the superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without making a fool of himself.
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Are you sure you can prevent yourself from falling in love one of these days? Such things do happen, you know, even to the most prudent men.' Simon gave him a strange, one might even have thought a hostile, look. I should tear it out of my heart as I'd wrench out of my mouth a rotten tooth.
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The audience is not the least important actor in the play and if it will not do its allotted share the play falls to pieces.
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She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate.
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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.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
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There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.
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Lady Hodmarsh and the duchess immediately assumed the clinging affability that persons of rank assume with their inferiors in order to show them that they are not in the least conscious of any difference in station between them.
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it.
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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.