Success. I don't believe it has any effect on me. For one thing I always expected it.
W. Somerset MaughamArt, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.
W. Somerset MaughamMen have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
W. Somerset MaughamI am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it. They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
W. Somerset Maugham