W. Somerset Maugham
38 quotations
Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.
You know that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it.
No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.
You can do anything in this world if you are prepares to take the consequences.
People who ask for your criticism want only praise.
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.