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
time long greek
When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
long reason pauses
Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can.
mean long razors
You know, the Philistines have long since discarded the rack and stake as a means of suppressing the opinions they feared: they've discovered a much more deadly weapon of destruction -- the wisecrack.
men long age
By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.
perfect long would-be
Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.
appreciation art long
I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.
baby long eras
We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.
apples long peaches
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
women differences long
As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
long-ago best-effort mind
I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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.