Somerset Quotes

20 quotes by 17 authors

• Writer Somerset Maugham, after his parents deaths, spent a few stultifying years in his uncle's vicarage. Later, in his teens at a boarding-school, having lost… — Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon
• I read books more than I go out. As a matter of fact, I get a little concerned about some of my anti-social habits. I… — Julie Bowen
• It is said Somerset Maugham traveled the world with a notebook to learn the essence of life and Kafka sat in a room for the… — U. R. Ananthamurthy
• The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham . — George Orwell
• Somerset has a wonderful wildness about it - it hasn't been tamed. This is farming country, and there's a realness here - I love it. — Anthony Head
• The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern writers, James Joyce,… — George Orwell
• Somerset Maugham said that it took at least six human beings to make one fictional character. That is true of landscape as well, I think.… — Mary Lee Settle
• I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel, the second time… — Martin Amis
• We have the highest authority for believing that the meek shall inherit the earth; though I have never found any particular corroboration of this aphorism… — F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
• Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset. — Roald Dahl
• I've got a farm in Somerset, and I think it's God's own country. I love it. — Kevin McCloud
• At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's 'Introduction To Modern… — Wilbur Smith
• It doesn't matter if I'm only to be gone four days, as in this case; I take six months' supply of reading material everywhere. Anyone… — Robin McKinley
• Someone once asked Somerset Maughham if he wrote on a schedule or only when struck by inspiration. "I write only when inspiration strikes," he replied.… — Steven Pressfield
• I spend so much of my time working away, but I love being here. My family is in Somerset, and this is where my heart… — Charles Hazlewood
• Somerset desperately needs more high-end music making on its doorstep, so the chance to share great music spanning genres as diverse as orchestral classics, trip… — Charles Hazlewood
• When I was very young - around the age of nine - my family used to go to a house in Somerset that my stepfather… — Christopher Lee
• Somerset is where I call home, and where I feel most myself. — James Purefoy
• We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to… — W. Somerset Maugham
• When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. --W. Somerset Maugham — W. Somerset Maugham

Who Wrote These Somerset Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 20 Somerset Quotes as follows:

• 2 Somerset Quotes by Charles Hazlewood
• 2 Somerset Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
• 2 Somerset Quotes by George Orwell
• 1 Somerset Quote by Christopher Lee
• 1 Somerset Quote by James Purefoy
• 1 Somerset Quote by Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon
• 1 Somerset Quote by Julie Bowen
• 1 Somerset Quote by U. R. Ananthamurthy
• 1 Somerset Quote by Anthony Head
• 1 Somerset Quote by Mary Lee Settle
• 1 Somerset Quote by Martin Amis
• 1 Somerset Quote by F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
• 1 Somerset Quote by Roald Dahl
• 1 Somerset Quote by Kevin McCloud
• 1 Somerset Quote by Wilbur Smith
• 1 Somerset Quote by Robin McKinley
• 1 Somerset Quote by Steven Pressfield