You can never know enough about your characters Auteur: W. Somerset Maugham Copy Quote More from W. Somerset Maugham “But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the patter…” “They don't want clever men; clever men have ideas, and ideas cause trouble; the…” “The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.” “Do you know, it seems to me that a great deal of nonsense is talked about the d…”