What did W. Somerset Maugham mean by: The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. W. Somerset Maugham Playwright and novelist · United Kingdom Copy
We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others. Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, W. Somerset Maugham, Empathy, Reflection, Resignation, 0 W. Somerset Maugham Playwright and novelist · United Kingdom
It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, W. Somerset Maugham, Excellence, Optimism, Success, 0 W. Somerset Maugham Playwright and novelist · United Kingdom
If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, W. Somerset Maugham, Deception, Integrity, Self-awareness, 0 W. Somerset Maugham Playwright and novelist · United Kingdom
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, W. Somerset Maugham, Love, Mortality, Tragedy, 0 W. Somerset Maugham Playwright and novelist · United Kingdom
Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, W. Somerset Maugham, Creativity, Humanity, Identity, 0 W. Somerset Maugham Playwright and novelist · United Kingdom
+ A good Havana is one of the best pleasures that I know. Author, June 18, 2023January 2, 2025, W. Somerset Maugham, Enjoyment, Pleasure, Relaxation, 0 W. Somerset Maugham Playwright and novelist · United Kingdom
+ Great writers create; writers of smaller gifts copy Author, July 25, 2023January 2, 2025, W. Somerset Maugham, Creation, Imitation, Talent, 0 W. Somerset Maugham Playwright and novelist · United Kingdom
+ Life isn’t long enough for love and art. Author, October 11, 2023January 2, 2025, W. Somerset Maugham, Art, Love, Time, 0 W. Somerset Maugham Playwright and novelist · United Kingdom
Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn’t bore. Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
