Maxioms by W. Somerset Maugham
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it read more
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of read more
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their read more
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.
