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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
«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
«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
