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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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
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Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his ways to man.
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There is only one way to win hearts and that is to make oneself like unto those of whom one would be loved.
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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy 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.
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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.