Inspirational Quotations by Somerset Maugham
- It is a funny thing about life,
If you refuse to accept nothing but the best,
You very often get it.
- It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to
accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
- A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.
- From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
- Common sense and good nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.