Quotes by Maugham, W. Somerset

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotis >>

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothi >>

A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and t >>

Quotations about Literary Criticism

The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its l >>

Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a ba >>

Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least >>

The great critic must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.

Maugham, W. Somerset