Quotes by Maugham, W. Somerset

It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer. >>

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

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they wo >>

Quotations about Colleges and Universities

College-bred is a four-year loaf, using dad's dough, Coming out half-b >>

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds: a Harvard ed >>

I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they gr >>

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it. They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.

Maugham, W. Somerset