W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
Don't you know? Because American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
Quotes to Explore
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
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Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.
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I moved about 45 minutes from West Hollywood, and I live surrounded by nature and the wilderness, but I constantly find myself walking around, like in the commercial, saying, 'Can you hear me now?'
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!
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People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
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There is no ideal body. It's just taking what you have and working it.
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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I know what it's like to go very fast on motorcycles. Those moments, they stay with you.
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The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
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I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.
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Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.
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I hope our hopes and aspirations are bigger than setting records.
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Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment.
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Karaoke was my family's happy secret. In those early years in America, like many immigrants, my parents struggled with poverty and loneliness, but they also built provisional families, and inside our bubble there was joy, understanding, an intimate language I could never translate - and above all there was song.
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Though I have drawn my sword in the present generous struggle for the rights of men, yet I am not in arms as an American, nor am I in pursuit of riches. My fortune is liberal enough, having no wife nor family, and having lived long enough to know that riches cannot ensure happiness.
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Don't you know? Because American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
