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- When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- [The television is] an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.
- David Frost
- Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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