153 ordspråk av William Somerset Maugham
William Somerset Maugham
William Somerset Maugham föddes den January 25th 1874 och dog den 16 December 1965 - English writer
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 I look into my empty heart and shrink dismayed:
My soul is like a desert, and the wild wind blows In its silent, barren spaces. |
| I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me. |
| I wonder how anyone can have the face to condemn others when he reflects upon his own thoughts |
| 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. |
| I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all. |
| I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ. |
| If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too |
| If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be so grossly over-populated as it is now |
| If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news? |
| Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. |
| Impropriety is the soul of wit. |
| In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally. |
| In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do |
| It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it. |
| 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. |
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