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's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it. |
| It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it. |
| It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer. |
| 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. |
| Life isn't long enough for love and art. |
| Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind |
| Love is only the dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. |
| Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other |
| Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives by make-believe. |
| Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it. |
| Men are passionate, men are weak, men are stupid, men are pitiful; to bring to bear on them anything so tremendous as the wrath of God seems strangely inept |
| Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable. |
| Money is like a sixth sense - and you can't make use of the other five without it |
| Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. |
| Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets. |
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Authors (167535 st) Search
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