Source: On a Chinese Screen
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Famous W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
“You can never know enough about your characters”
Source: The Summing Up
“Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.”
Source: Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)
Source: Mr. Maugham Himself
Source: the Gentleman in the Parlour
Source: The Razor's Edge
“I'm only twenty-five. If I've made a mistake I have time to correct it.”
“The good traveler has the gift of surprise.”
Source: the Gentleman in the Parlour
“First, cut out all the wisdom, then cut out all the adjectives.”
“Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.”
Source: The Moon and Sixpence
Source: Plays Volume One
“When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.”
Source: Cakes and Ale
Source: the Gentleman in the Parlour
“A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.”
Source: The Painted Veil
Source: Mr. Maugham Himself
Source: Cakes and Ale
Source: Cakes and Ale
“It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.”
Source: Plays Volume One
Source: Mr. Maugham Himself
“By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but a few.”
Source: The Summing Up
Source: Mr. Maugham Himself
Source: Mr. Maugham Himself
Source: Mr. Maugham Himself
“It is astonishing how many books I find there is no need for me to read at all.”
Source: the Gentleman in the Parlour
Source: The Summing Up
Source: Christmas Holiday
Source: Mr. Maugham Himself
“Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story.”
“The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.”
Source: The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection
“Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man.”
Source: Mr. Maugham Himself