W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon And Sixpence Quotes
As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
When a woman loves you she's not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she's weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed.
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.
Can the law get blood out of a stone? I haven't any money.
I will continue to write moral stories in rhymed couplets. But I should be thrice a fool if I did it for aught but my own entertainment.
Only the poet or the saint can water an asphalt pavement in the confident anticipation that lilies will reward his labour.