1. Maugham - Noun
2. Maugham - Proper noun
English writer (born in France) of novels and short stories (1874-1965)
Source: WordNetSomerset Maugham ... wrote somewhere that "Nobody is any better than he ought to be." ... I carried it along with me as a working philosophy, but I suppose that finally I would have to take exception to the thought ... or else the universe is just an elaborate clock. Norman Mailer
Somerset Maugham refers more than once to the pleasure of the Malayan morning - papaya and eggs and bacon and strong British tea taken while the air is cool and the sun awaits its sudden thrust into the green land.... Anthony Burgess
Maugham was a mere visitor and did not have to take any language examinations; a civil servant like myself was forced to reach degree level in Malay.... Anthony Burgess
Maugham then offers the greatest advice anyone could give to a young author: "At the end of an interrogation sentence, place a question mark. You'd be surprised how effective it can be. Woody Allen
Goethe said, "The author whom a lexicon can keep up with is worth nothing”; Somerset Maugham says that the finest compliment he ever received was a letter in which one of his readers said: "I read your novel without having to look up a single word in the dictionary.”. Randall Jarrell
Co-written with John Byrum based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham. Bill Murray