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“A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.” (The Painted Veil Quotes)
William Somerset Maugham
The Painted Veil
“Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are happy enough to possess it and thankful, if we are not, that others possess it for our pleasure.”
William Somerset Maugham
The Painted Veil
“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.”
William Somerset Maugham
The Painted Veil
“I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.”
William Somerset Maugham
The Painted Veil
“I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.”
William Somerset Maugham
The Painted Veil
“I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos.” (The Painted Veil Quotes)
William Somerset Maugham
The Painted Veil
“If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.”
William Somerset Maugham
The Painted Veil
“If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.”
William Somerset Maugham
The Painted Veil
“It was a pity that with his great qualities, his unselfishness and honor, his intelligence and sensibility, he should be so unlovable.”
William Somerset Maugham
The Painted Veil
“One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.”
William Somerset Maugham
The Painted Veil
“She could not admit but that he had remarkable qualities, sometimes she thought that there was even in him a strange and unattractive greatness; it was curious then that she could not love him, but loved still a man whose worthlessness was now so clear to her.”
William Somerset Maugham
The Painted Veil
“She says it’s really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate.”
William Somerset Maugham
The Painted Veil
“Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.”
William Somerset Maugham
The Painted Veil
“There are many foolish people in the world and when a man in a rather high position puts on no frills, slaps them on the back, and tells them he’ll do anything in the world for them, they are very likely to think him clever.”
William Somerset Maugham
The Painted Veil
“Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.”
William Somerset Maugham
The Painted Veil
