More from William Somerset Maugham

  1. Now 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 r…
  2. He knew that women appreciated neither irony nor sarcasm, but simple jokes and funny stories. He was amply provided with both.
  3. It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
  4. If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it valu…
  5. 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.
  6. Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
  7. 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 Camb…
  8. Now it is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it:

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