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You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
By W. Somerset Maugham
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.
By W. Somerset Maugham
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
By W. Somerset Maugham
When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a religious man and he read prayers to the assembled household every morning. But he had crossed out in pencil all the passages that praised God. He said that there was nothing so vulgar as to praise people to their faces and, himself a gentleman, he could not believe that God was so ungentlemanly as to like it.
By W. Somerset Maugham
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
By W. Somerset Maugham
What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
By W. Somerset Maugham
We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
By W. Somerset Maugham
We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.
By W. Somerset Maugham
We have long passed the Victorian era, when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.
By W. Somerset Maugham
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
By W. Somerset Maugham
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
By W. Somerset Maugham
Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
By W. Somerset Maugham
There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead they did not seem to belong to the same species and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.
By W. Somerset Maugham
There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish to bewail it senseless.
By W. Somerset Maugham
There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
By W. Somerset Maugham
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are
By W. Somerset Maugham
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
By W. Somerset Maugham
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
By W. Somerset Maugham