It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
W. Somerset MaughamThe Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a momentโs reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication.
W. Somerset MaughamThe secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut.
W. Somerset Maugham