English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

With infinite patience she prepared to snare and bind me. She wanted to bring me down to her level; she cared nothing for me, she only wanted me to be hers. She was willing to do everything in the world for me except the one thing I wanted: to leave me alone.

W. Somerset Maugham

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

A laborer no longer makes whole articles. He receives raw materials, puts his touch on them, and passes them to another worker in the series. When the articles are quite finished they are carried out of sight by currents of commercial exchange. These currents are untraceable. John Bates Clark
A lot of people think I'm cynical when I talk about acting. The truth of the matter is, I just don't want someone to get some lame advice that will send them in the wrong direction. Amber Tamblyn
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people. Barbara Kingsolver
Race and sexual preferences are two different things. One is a behavior-related and preference-related and one is something inherently - skin color, something obvious, that kind of stuff. James Lankford
There was nothing then but the revelation of the spirit-of God that could make any of the Israelites understand and believe that he was their proper Messiah. Elias Hicks
Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play. Paul Watzlawick
Raymond Berry quote: "The most prepared are the most dedicated."
The most prepared are the most dedicated. Raymond Berry
Bill Hybels quote: "I look at tens of thousands of church leaders who still do..."
I look at tens of thousands of church leaders who still do need a bit of an awakening. Bill Hybels
Gloria Swanson quote: "I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the..."
I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford. Gloria Swanson
I think the American people have been surprised by the enthusiasm with which the Iraqis have taken to elections and politics. Duncan Hunter
Horace quote: "Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, andwhatever days..."
Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, andwhatever days fortune will give, count themas profit. Horace
Martin Luther King jr. quote: "A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right."
A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. Martin Luther King jr.
People who have car collections - I never understood that. I always thought that was unnecessary. It's not beautiful, it's not creative. It's just showing how much money you've got. Daniel Radcliffe
Ian Mcewan quote: "Could it ever be explained, how matter becomes conscious?"
Could it ever be explained, how matter becomes conscious? Ian Mcewan
T. S. Eliot quote: "I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope..."
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing. T. S. Eliot