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
cute chance life-is
Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.
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Lady Hodmarsh and the duchess immediately assumed the clinging affability that persons of rank assume with their inferiors in order to show them that they are not in the least conscious of any difference in station between them.
inspirational funny life
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
inspirational secret life-is
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
life friendship time
It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
funny time elderly
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
love life important
The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
inspirational funny death
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
zest three feminine
It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.
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Life isn't long enough for love and art.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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.