“Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.”

— W. Somerset Maugham, book The Razor's Edge

The Razor's Edge (1943)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance." by W. Somerset Maugham?

W. Somerset Maugham photo

W. Somerset Maugham158

British playwright, novelist, short story writer 1874–1965

Related quotes

“it seemed to me that I had never met
another person on earth
as discouraging to my happiness
as my father.
and it appeared that I had
the same effect upon
him.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

“I have met all the most gifted people in our generation and you're the best.”

Bill Clinton (1946) 42nd President of the United States

To Hillary Rodham Clinton when they both attended Yale University, repeated in a 2007 campaign speech. http://economist.com/world/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9904609 <br class="br">2000s

“And in all my years, I have never met a rich person who has never lost money. But I have met a lot of poor people who have never lost a dime…investing, that is.”

Robert T. Kiyosaki (1947) American finance author , investor

Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!

“I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.”

Jeannette Walls book The Glass Castle

Source: The Glass Castle

“Like all reasonable people, I hate all Muslims. Except for the ones I've met, who seem fine.”

Stewart Lee (1968) English stand-up comedian, writer, director and musician

Series 4 Episode 2: "Islamophobia"

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”

Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer

As quoted in The Ring of Truth (2004) by Joseph O'Day

“I have seen messed-up people of forty who still seemed salvageable, and children of six or seven who almost surely were not.”

Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“I'm the most important person in the lives of almost everyone I know and a good number of the people I've never even met.”

David Sedaris (1956) American author

“I know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for permanence.”

Evelyn Waugh book Vile Bodies

Source: Vile Bodies

“It seems to me, that the most unlikely events almost have to happen, or life would just be dull and no one would write anything down.”

Lawrence M. Schoen (1959) American writer and klingonist

Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 17, “Dead Voices” (p. 171)

Related topics