Zitat des Tages von W. Somerset Maugham:
I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
W. Somerset MaughamAnyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
W. Somerset MaughamThe trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
W. Somerset MaughamWe know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
W. Somerset MaughamIt is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
W. Somerset MaughamLove is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
W. Somerset MaughamSentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
W. Somerset Maugham