"Yeah, it goes with 'Maugham's Talent Maxim' … Only a mediocre person is always at his best.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Peerless Prognosticator] Reference

I am looking forward to everything else by Maugham.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yatima » 2009 » December] Reference

Ms. Hastings ranks Maugham rather higher than that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Read More Than Respected] Reference

Like me, he adores the spy short stories of Maugham.    From Wordnik.com.  [Secret Lovers] Reference

Maugham was unapologetic about being a popular writer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Posterity makes its choice] Reference

And how is Maugham treated by our official historians?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The true history of the short story] Reference

Leavis and Maugham are not enough of a conflict for you?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don’t go there] Reference

I'm thinking of people like Le Carre, Maugham and Greene.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-11-01] Reference

Like I said, Maugham was a big ol' 'mo. posted by Frank | 10:09 PM.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-03-01] Reference

Something like it could also be said of Maugham himself, of course.    From Wordnik.com.  [Posterity makes its choice] Reference

Maugham said, “I wanted to send a long telegram to the reader.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Secret Lovers] Reference

W. Somerset Maugham Guard with jealous attention the public liberty.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's Wrong with this Picture?] Reference

Maugham says something very likeable in his introductory essay though.    From Wordnik.com.  [trompe l'oeil, butoh, and the similarities between oysters and stories] Reference

One is by Somerset Maugham and it scares the living daylights out of me.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's My Party] Reference

She never remarried and always claimed she was still in love with Maugham.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brooks Peters: Mariage Blanc] Reference

Not long after, Wellcome sued for divorce, naming Maugham as co-respondent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brooks Peters: Mariage Blanc] Reference

When I feel my work borders on being insipid - I spend the day with Maugham.    From Wordnik.com.  [My mechanic Steve] Reference

Someone asked Maugham whether he writes on a schedule or only when inspired.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Writer���s Biggest Excuse: Inspiration] Reference

Maugham himself seems to have got the message about what the literary elite thought of him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The true history of the short story] Reference

Maugham could easily have dropped her after the miscarriage, but he continued to see Syrie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brooks Peters: Mariage Blanc] Reference

The title comes from a short story by Ian Fleming that is apparently in the style of Maugham.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-11-01] Reference

I'm trying to figure out who would complete the triumvirate of Maugham/Greene/someone - Waugh?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letter] Reference

Maugham was a middlebrow writer to his core; almost anyone could read and enjoy what he wrote.    From Wordnik.com.  [The true history of the short story] Reference

Whatever else may be said, Maugham was a man who communicated successfully with a wide audience.    From Wordnik.com.  [The true history of the short story] Reference

Again, this isn't Maugham; it's an American actor having his way with a character, beautifully.    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily: The Painted Veil.] Reference

Clarke said: I regard myself primarily as an entertainer and my ideals are Maugham, Kipling, Wells.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twelve Hours Later: News: March 2008 Archives] Reference

Maugham reminded us that the gift of speech is not necessarily accompanied by the power of thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [TV critics praise Obama ad -- The Live Feed | THR] Reference

Popular approval had its costs, however, which Maugham continued to pay for the rest of the century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Posterity makes its choice] Reference

There appears to be something of revived interest and respect for Maugham going on, at least in England.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Leaf, Trembling] Reference

Maugham, according to Burgess, was just repeating stories that he had heard on his travels in the Far East.    From Wordnik.com.  [The true history of the short story] Reference

But I guess I'd have to say - of all of these great writers - Somerset Maugham would be my all-time favorite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iconic] Reference

Assuming that "show, don't tell" is an actual rule--- which it isn't--- Maugham violates it everywhere you look.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Leaf, Trembling] Reference

Josephine Tey, M.M. Kaye and Ayn Rand were my early icons - and then, of course, Somerset Maugham and James Clavell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Influence] Reference

Maugham suggests that just as Europeans succumb to tropical diseases, they also succumb to tropical passions that destroy them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letter] Reference

Nigel has no idea whether Leavis and Maugham get along or not, and really isn't smart enough to follow any disputes he might find.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don’t go there] Reference

Often the rhymes don't scan or feel overworked: "Maugham owns" and "hormones" are the sort to which the lyricists frequently resort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ready for their close-up] Reference

The aim was to whip up interest in a book before its shelf life, estimated by Maugham to be no more than thirty days, came to an end.    From Wordnik.com.  [Good books, not new ones] Reference

Although he is no less a hack than his rival—Maugham scorches himself as badly as Hugh Walpole—Ashenden writes to a different standard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Posterity makes its choice] Reference