You can never know enough about your characters Author: W. Somerset Maugham Copy Quote More from W. Somerset Maugham “D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our st…” “If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon …” “Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion...” “In the first place it's not true that people improve as you know them better: t…”