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. Failure makes people bitter and cruel. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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. Failure makes people bitter and cruel. W. Somerset Maugham
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepares to take the consequences. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

You can do anything in this world if you are prepares to take the consequences.

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 Consequences
You know that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

You know that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.

W. Somerset Maugham

 Adultery
The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. 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. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. 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. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

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 Age And Aging
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

W. Somerset Maugham

 Age And Aging
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

W. Somerset Maugham

 Aphorisms And Epigrams
Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.

W. Somerset Maugham

 Association
No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichTs that make you laugh, the hackneyed characters, the well-worn situations, the commonplace story that excites your derision, seem neither hackneyed, well worn nor commonplace to him. The conclusion is obvious: you cannot write anything that will convince unless you are yourself convinced. The best seller sells because he writes with his heart's blood. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichTs that make you laugh, the hackneyed characters, the well-worn situations, the commonplace story that excites your derision, seem neither hackneyed, well worn nor commonplace to him. The conclusion is obvious: you cannot write anything that will convince unless you are yourself convinced. The best seller sells because he writes with his heart's blood.

W. Somerset Maugham

 
Lady Hodmarsh and the duchess immediately assumed the clinging affability that persons of rank assume with their inferiors in order to show them that they are not in the least conscious of any difference in station between them. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

Lady Hodmarsh and the duchess immediately assumed the clinging affability that persons of rank assume with their inferiors in order to show them that they are not in the least conscious of any difference in station between them.

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 Class
I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it. They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it. They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.

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 Colleges And Universities
Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.

W. Somerset Maugham

 Common Sense
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