Famous quotes containing the words somerset maugham, somerset and/or maugham:
“We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)
“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 (1874–1965)
“Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1966)