The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
W. Somerset MaughamI think I was a little disappointed in her. I expected then people to be more of a piece than I do now, and I was distressed to find so much vindictiveness in so charming a creature. I did not realize how motley are the qualities that go to make up a human being. Now I am well aware that pettiness and grandeur, malice and charity, hatred and love, can find place side by side in the same human heart.
W. Somerset MaughamIt requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.
W. Somerset Maugham