Quote Explained: We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.

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To write simply is as difficult as to be good.

Playwright and novelist

· United Kingdom

There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.

W. Somerset Maugham

Playwright and novelist

· United Kingdom

Thank God, I can look at a sunset now without having to think how to describe it

W. Somerset Maugham

Playwright and novelist

· United Kingdom

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.

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.

W. Somerset Maugham

Playwright and novelist

· United Kingdom

I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.

W. Somerset Maugham

Playwright and novelist

· United Kingdom

Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.

W. Somerset Maugham

Playwright and novelist

· United Kingdom

For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.

W. Somerset Maugham

Playwright and novelist

· United Kingdom

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.

To write simply is as difficult as to be good.

There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.

Thank God, I can look at a sunset now without having to think how to describe it

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.

If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.

I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.

Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.

For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.

Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Read explanation

Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself.

The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness. Read explanation

When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.

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