More from William Somerset Maugham

  1. :when you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right:
  2. I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. : They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are writte…
  3. It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
  4. I have not been afraid of excess: excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
  5. :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 cy…
  6. :the future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
  7. Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can sme…
  8. :we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

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