The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible. You never come to the end of the surprises he has in store for you.
W. Somerset MaughamClearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth.
W. Somerset MaughamThank God, I can look at a sunset now without having to think how to describe it
W. Somerset MaughamI could have forgiven it if he'd fallen desperately in love with someone and gone off with her. I should have thought that natural. I shouldn't really have blamed him. I should have thought he was led away. Men are so weak, and women are so unscrupulous.
W. Somerset Maugham