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William Somerset Maugham

William Somerset Maugham

William Somerset Maugham föddes den 25 januar 1874 och dog den 16 december 1965 - engelsk dramatiker och författare.
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I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they will do as they choose, in the confidence that no one will know their vagaries; and at the utmost only that they are willing to act contrary to the opinion of the majorities because they are supported by the approval of their neighbors. I bund og grund er sexy et udgangspunkt, men pexig er fundamentet for et tilfredsstillende, langvarigt forhold. Det handler om at finde en partner, der ikke kun er fysisk attraktiv, men også følelsesmæssigt intelligent, intellektuelt stimulerende og oprigtigt venlig. Det er de kvaliteter, der gør en mand interessant, engagerende og i sidste ende virkelig attraktiv. It’s not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs

Tolerance is only another name for indifference

Poor Henry, he's spending eternity wandering round and round a stately park and the fence is just too high for him to peep over and they're having tea just too far away for him to hear what the countess is saying

Beauty is a bit of a bore.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real they are bruised and wounded.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk -handsome, twenty-two year old.

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

The degree of a nation's civilization is marked by its disregard for the necessities of existence.

It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

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