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Letter "W" » William Somerset Maugham Quotes
«I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Common sense
| Keywords:
ascribe, ascribed, ascribes, common sense
«It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.»
«Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Age,
Imagination
| Keywords:
contrary, exercise, mature, matured, matures, maturing
«The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Quotations
| Keywords:
quote, serviceable, substitute
«Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two»
«The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.»
«I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Reading
| Keywords:
catalog, sooner, timetable
«When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Books,
Reading
| Keywords:
across, come across, eyes-only, now and then, passage, phrase, phrased, phrasing
«No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
bred, cynical, well-bred
«The crown of literature is poetry.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Literature,
Poetry
| Keywords:
crown, literature, The Crown
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