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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 It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved. |
| It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set |
| It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive |
| It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent. |
| It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise. |
| It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is. |
| It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor. |
| It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated |
| It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection. |
| It takes two to make a love affair and a man's meat is too often a woman's poison |
| It was such a lovely day, I thought it a pity to get up |
| It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say 'I don't know' |
| It wasn't until quite late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, "I don't know |
| It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. |
| It's no good crying over spilt milk, because all the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it |
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