So long as some are strong and some are weak, the weak will be driven to the wall.
W. Somerset MaughamShe says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate.
W. Somerset MaughamThere are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment.
W. Somerset MaughamMake him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.
W. Somerset MaughamYou know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action. In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They're both very good things. I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you're ground down by convention. You can't think as you like and you can't act as you like. That's because it's a democratic nation. I expect America's worse.
W. Somerset Maugham