British - Playwright | January 25, 1874 - December 16, 1965
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
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I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
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Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
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