Somerset Maugham

Famous quotes containing the words somerset maugham, somerset and/or maugham:

    Lady Hodmarsh and the duchess immediately assumed the clinging affability that persons of rank assume with their inferiors in order to show them that they are not in the least conscious of any difference in station between them.
    —W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)

    Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way.
    —W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1966)

    No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
    —W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)