Famous quotes containing the words viscount and/or maugham:
“You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.”
—John Morley [1st Viscount Morley Of Blackburn] (1838–1923)
“Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1966)