Quotes by Maugham, W. Somerset

Only a mediocre person is always at his best. >>

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquir >>

It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but th >>

Quotations about Politicians and Politics

He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting. >>

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm >>

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are >>

A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Maugham, W. Somerset