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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 She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. |
| She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. |
| Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem. |
| The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. |
| The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening |
| The bitterest misfortune can be covered up with a smile |
| 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. |
| The crown of literature is poetry. |
| The degree of a nation's civilization is marked by its disregard for the necessities of existence. |
| The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. |
| The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now. |
| The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected. |
| The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love. |
| The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love. |
| 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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