W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
The nature of men and women - their essential nature – is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.W. Somerset Maugham
Quotes to Explore
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
Tacitus -
I'm against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman's choice.
Nancy Reagan -
I love my real mom and dad; I love them both equally.
Imogen Poots -
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
D. H. Lawrence -
Free love sounds great.
Laura Prepon -
And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.
Rainn Wilson
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All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
Jack Kerouac -
I love to go shopping and see what catches my eye.
Patrick Schwarzenegger -
Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.
Ovid -
I've been dating younger men since my 20s, When I was 29, I dated someone 21... younger men are just more fun. I like their energy. I've always been kind of young for my age.
Dana Delany -
I'd like very much to make a confident picture. I would like to be as good as nature, which, with a shower, produces flowers and grass to cover the destruction. But we are surrounded by human fragmentation, by pessimism, and it is difficult to talk of other things.
Federico Fellini -
I love listening to songs that are from the heart and that touch the heart. So, love is the preferred theme for most of the songs that I sing.
Kailash Kher
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I'd love to do a comedy; that's the one thing I haven't done yet that I really, really want to do.
Zoe Kravitz -
I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.
Yossi Sarid -
Young women and men who joined the far-left groups did so for the best of reasons. They wanted to change the world. Many fought against the stifling atmosphere in many groups.
Tariq Ali -
It's so weird to turn on a switch and be the role model for all women, for all African-Americans. That doesn't happen that easily. It just doesn't. And so I don't act up in public and I don't do anything weird - because my sisters are watching me, not because the world is watching me.
Gabourey Sidibe -
You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.
L'Wren Scott -
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale Hurston
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In theatre, previews are the first draft of a show. I strongly believe that. The only way we can truly tell whether that draft works is by having an audience present.
John Tiffany -
How much more forcefully can I say it? The time has come, and it is long overdue, when Christians and conservatives and all men and women who believe in the birthright of freedom must rise up and reclaim America for Jesus Christ.
D. James Kennedy -
It's hard work to find your own voice and not to copycat anything.
Arnaud Desplechin -
I have never believed in the impossible.
Faye Wattleton -
No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'.
Cal Thomas -
The nature of men and women - their essential nature – is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.
W. Somerset Maugham