Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part.
W. Somerset MaughamIt has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible harmony.
W. Somerset MaughamAs lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
W. Somerset MaughamPerhaps it would have been possible to see in him a new Prometheus...the hero who for the good of mankind exposes himself to the agonies of the damned...undaunted by failure, by an unceasing effort of courage holding despair at bay, doggedly persistent in the face of self-doubt, which is the artist's bitterest enemy.
W. Somerset Maugham