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
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.
english expect hope husbands perfection women
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
beautiful art perfect
Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ~Waddington
maturity perfect age
For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
perfect long would-be
Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.
creativity perfection creative
It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
humility perfection dull
Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
perfect picnics comfort
There are few things so pleasant as a picnic eaten in perfect comfort.
perfection dull irony
Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
people perfection sometimes
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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.
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.
cute chance life-is
Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.