W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.

W. Somerset Maugham

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: playwright
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: January 25, 1874 - December 16, 1965

Topics

KindnessPeopleYouYoungRight

A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly between two candidates, and that's it.

Jim Lehrer

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What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.

Stephen Greenblatt

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The Ramones were inspiring a lot of bands that couldn't master their instruments.

Tommy Ramone

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If you need a tax credit to compete, you are probably not that competitive.

Mike Pompeo

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My character Milly in 'The Boy Who Could Fly' was a very strong part. There were dramatic moments, and there were humorous moments, too. The whole story with Eric Underwood's character was just wonderful, and the messages behind the script were very important to me.

Lucy Deakins

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Perhaps it's more merciful to forget the dead instead of remembering them.

Jose Bergamin

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A model needs to know how to project herself into the camera.

China Machado

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You've got to seize the opportunity if it is presented to you.

Clive Davis

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You immediately hear the word 'Merlin,' you think magic, you think adventure, excitement - you also think 'an old man.'

Colin Morgan

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I steal props from 'SNL' a great deal. Almost every sketch I'm in, I try to grab something from it, so I have a storage space full of props.

Bobby Moynihan

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My sister's journal was the romantic one with boys, and mine was talking about my rock tumbler. We were so different and so similar.

Paula Pell

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I think few people of education enter politics because it seems like a contact blood sport.

Sherry Turkle

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