W. Somerset Maugham Quotes About Students

Quotes about: Students

• There was once a professor of law who said to his students. When you are fighting a case, if you have facts on your side hammer them into the jury, and if you have the law on your side hammer it into the judge. But if you have neither the facts nor the law, asked one of his listeners? Then hammer the hell into the table, answered the professor.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Fighting, Your Side, Law

  W. Somerset Maugham (2011). “A Writer's Notebook”, p.131, Random House

• I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to the universities go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene ... They are scum.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Men, Class, Goes On

• Advice to first year medical students: In anatomy, it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Years, Advice, Firsts

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