Quotes by Maugham, W. Somerset

The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as yo >>

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lo >>

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to >>

Quotations about Speech

Sweet Benjamin, since thou art young, and hast not yet the use of tong >>

What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to. >>

A talk is like a woman's dress. Long enough to cover the subject, but >>

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.

Maugham, W. Somerset