W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

W. Somerset Maugham

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I was the girl in the black leather jacket with the black fingernails, picked up after school by guys with loud cars and motorcycles. I carried straight-A grades, but I had a little trouble with rules. I tended to have a bit of an authority problem.

Melissa Marr

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Fitness is really important for my mental and emotional equilibrium as well as my physical wellbeing.

Robert Rinder

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I think any stereotyping is too much.

Tommy Lee Jones

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Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.

Robert Fulghum

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There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.

Roger Caras

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Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.

Mason Cooley

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I believe that there are new perspectives that are needed in order for us to resolve the problems that we face as Americans and also the problems we face as people on this planet, and I believe that new perspective and new leadership is needed.

Martin O'Malley

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I am what I do, and that's partly why I don't want to give up singing. But when I can't sing well, I will.

Don McLean

I AmSingingWantWhyWillUp

Everyone needs to take that time to figure out who they are. The fact that there's no love interests in 'Moana' - it's all about her - is very relatable. You don't need another person to help you find yourself.

Auli'i Cravalho

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'Ordinary Grace' freed me. I don't have to write only Cork O'Connor novels now. I'm liberated. I can write whatever I want to write.

William Kent Krueger

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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

William Hazlitt

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Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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