"Collected Stories" Quotes
A collection of captivating and thought-provoking tales that delve into the complexities of human nature with Maugham's signature wit and insight.
short stories | 900 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
There is no such thing as love, it's a fiction for the poets.
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic.
People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
