Nothing more predisposes someone in our favour than to let him rob you a little.
W. Somerset MaughamIn the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
W. Somerset MaughamThere are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
W. Somerset MaughamThey say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him.
W. Somerset MaughamIt needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that for the most of us makes life worth living and are devoid of envy of what they have missed. I have never made up my mind whether they are fools or wise men.
W. Somerset Maugham