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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 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. |
| No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul. |
| 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. |
| No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman |
| Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. |
| Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. |
| Only a mediocre person is always at his best |
| People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. |
| People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise. |
| Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull. |
| Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved. |
| 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 |
| Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs |
| Resignation is the timid sign of courage |
| Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way |
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