Quotes by Maugham, W. Somerset

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the state >>

Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness o >>

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have n >>

Quotations about Critics and Criticism

There are two modes of criticism. One which crushes to earth without m >>

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another. >>

The dread of criticism is the death of genius. >>

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

Maugham, W. Somerset