1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright
Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
W. Somerset Maugham – [Tolerance]
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
W. Somerset Maugham – [Tradition]
We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.
W. Somerset Maugham – [Friends and Friendship]
We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
W. Somerset Maugham – [Resignation]
What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably… have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
W. Somerset Maugham – [Speech]
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]
When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
W. Somerset Maugham – [Age and Aging]
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
W. Somerset Maugham – [Laughter]
You can do anything in this world if you are prepares to take the consequences.
W. Somerset Maugham – [Consequences]
You know that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
W. Somerset Maugham – [Adultery]
You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
W. Somerset Maugham – [Critics and Criticism]
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