W. Somerset Maugham Quotes About Talent

Quotes about: Talent

• Genius is talent provided with ideals.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Genius, Talent, Ideals

• There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Art, Talent, Pursuit

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.539, Diversion Books

• It must be that to govern a nation you need a specific talent and that this may very well exist without general ability.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Government, Needs, May

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

• Genius is talent provided with ideals. Genius starves while talent wears purple and fine linen. The man of genius of today will infifty years' time be in most cases no more than a man of talent.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Men, Years, Purple

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