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
acceptance world blame
I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world.
world want had-enough
He exulted in the possession of himself once more; he realized how much of the delight of the world he had lost when he was absorbed in that madness which they called love; he had had enough of it; he did not want to be in love anymore if love was that.
people would-be world
Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.
death dying world
Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of 'natural causes'.
anger political world
The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
sight bored world
The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
men world-love trouble
There's nothing the world loves more than a ready-made description which they can hang on to a man, and so save themselves all trouble in future.
men atheism world
Through the history of the world there have always been exploiters and exploited. There always will be ... because the great mass of men are made by nature to be slaves, they are unfit to control themselves, and for their own good need masters.
giving-up unfortunate-things world
An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
men ideas world
I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos.
eye deception world
It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.
soul world finding-peace
One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.
inspirational positive-thinking world
You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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.