Author of quotes: William Somerset Maugham. Page 1

Painful to ensure its mediocrity when it's too late. The character of this not getting any better.

You know, there are two good things: freedom of thought and freedom of action.

The greatest misconception in the world that no money can not raise children. Money is needed to make them ladies and gentlemen, but I don't want my children to be ladies and gentlemen.

I hope you covered here table not me. I had a great lunch with their children.
- No, I always eat separately. Love the vintage customs. I think women should not sit at the table with men: it kills conversation, and for them it is harmful. Typed all sorts of ideas, and women are always nervous when they have in mind is going to start any idea.

You would have had to learn to read in Spanish. Noble language. It is not as sugary as the Italian: Italian is the language of tenors and organ-grinders, but in Spanish there is greatness; he is not like spring in the garden, and the bubbling and heaving like a mighty river in flood.

<...> the river, though flowing slowly, was still in motion, and on this there is a sad sense of the transience of life. Everything passes, and if it leaves a trail, then what? Kitty seemed that all of them, all the people on the ground, like drops of water in this river unnamed stream all attracted to the sea. When all is so transient and negligible, is it worth, blowing little things up into major events, so to torment ourselves and others?

Do not forget, my child, peace of peace can be found not in work or in pleasure, not in the world or in a convent, but only in your heart.

You can love the woman very much and yet not wanting to live with her entire life.

- So was it necessary to tell me that you do not need to, but me?
His lips twisted whimsically.
- Oh, my dear, it is impossible to understand literally every word of a man in love.
- So you lied to me?
- At the moment - no.

Her heart fell chill ran through her entire body, she shivered. There is a feeling, spoken - just someone walking over your grave.

The baby does not realize that his body belongs to him more than the surrounding objects; he plays with toes, without feeling that they are part of him and something different from hanging rattles; only gradually, experiencing the pain, the child begins to feel independent existence of his body. Individual to realize his "I", need the same experience; however, the difference lies in the fact that every person feels their body as a special and independent body, but not everyone is aware of his "I" as a separate and independent identity. The sense of alienation from others usually comes with puberty, but not always developed to such an extent that the difference of the individual from others became evident to him. And here people, as little conscious of their "I's" as bees in a hive, destined in life luck: they are much more fortunate, as their being shared with them all of society, their joy just because and be the joys that they play together...

- . Let's get amazing, but first he will disappoint you a little bit: the fact that he becomes himself only when he is drunk.
And worst of all, he added Clutton, ' that he should devilishly a lot of time to get drunk.

Is it worth spending your youth on some stupid office, when the world is so beautiful?

Amazing all that one who had suffered the bitter disappointment, in turn, unwittingly, supports the false illusion of others.