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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Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment’s reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication.
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I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.
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The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
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Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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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.
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It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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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.