[Money] is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.
W. Somerset MaughamWe are like people living in a country whose language they know so little that, with all manner of beautiful and profound things to say, they are condemned to the banalities of the conversation manual. Their brain is seething with ideas, and they can only tell you that the umbrella of the gardener's aunt is in the house.
W. Somerset MaughamIt's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
W. Somerset Maugham