She [Sadie Thompson] gathered herself together. No one could describe …

W. Somerset Maugham
360 citations
She [Sadie Thompson] gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer. You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You're all the same, all of you. Pigs! Pigs! ✨ Altogether: Being the collected stories of W. Somerset Maugham (Rain). Book by W. Somerset Maugham, 1934.
Death Reading Sadness
31

More Author Quotes

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. ✨ Cakes and Ale, or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard by W. Somerset Maugham, (p. 310), 1930.
You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism. ✨ W. Somerset Maugham (1930). Cakes and Ale
If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.
From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the im … ▶
Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion. ✨ W. Somerset Maugham (2013). The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection, p.2043, eBookIt.com

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes