Quote #121
Have common sense and stick to the point.
More from William Somerset Maugham
- Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
- If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
- An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
- In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
- At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
- Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
- Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way.
- The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.