W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
I am a little shy of any assumption of moral indignation. There is always in it an element of self-satisfaction which makes it awkward to anyone who has a sense of humour.
W. Somerset Maugham
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
Xavier Samuel
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
H. L. Mencken
All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.
Karl Philipp Moritz
Actors don't have real value.
Uwe Boll
Since I was 10 years old, I knew I wanted to sail around the world.
Laura Dekker
When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
Barbara Boxer
In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds.
Harri Holkeri
Each of my books is different from the last, each with its own characters, its own setting, its own themes. As a writer, I need the variety. I sense my readers do, too.
Barbara Delinsky
Harry Dresden: It’s not my fault all women like motorcycles, Murph. They’re basically huge vibrators. With wheels.
Jim Butcher
People addicted to secrecy are so without knowing why; they are not so for cause, but for secrecy's sake.
William Hazlitt
I am a little shy of any assumption of moral indignation. There is always in it an element of self-satisfaction which makes it awkward to anyone who has a sense of humour.
W. Somerset Maugham