“How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.”
— W. Somerset Maugham“Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.”
— W. Somerset Maugham“One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.”
— W. Somerset Maugham“It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh.”
— W. Somerset Maugham“If 50 million people say something foolish, it is still foolish.”
— W. Somerset MaughamExcess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
— W. Somerset Maugham