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
W. Somerset Maugham quotes about
zest three feminine
It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.
truth telling-the-truth epigrams
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
kindness people young
When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
life famous-love art
Life isn't long enough for love and art.
lonely heart together
Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain. We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
track toss chosen
Its a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, few are chosen.
love life change
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
sad courage praise
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
sad courage praise
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
reading book reading-books
I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.
death tonight baghdad
I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.
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.
sports children school
For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poets they read, and the God they believed in. It is all these things that have made them what they are, and these are the things that you can't come to know by hearsay...
humble ignorance fate
The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge. Let us be silent, content in our little corner, meek and gentle like them. That is the wisdom of life.