223 ordspråk av 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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 Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad. |
| The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. |
| When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right. |
| My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. |
| It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is. |
| Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. |
| The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account |
| Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams |
| It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise. |
| You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. |
| Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. |
| Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too. |
| The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes. |
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