The Moon and Sixpence Quotes

“There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has no kindness then, no tolerance even, she has only an insane irritation.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

topic:love woman

“Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

topic:love women

“When a woman loves you she's not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she's weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

topic:love women satisfaction

“As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

topic:love women men

“let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge. Let us be silent, content in our little corner, meek and gentle like them. That is the wisdom of life.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

topic:life wisdom simplicity

“It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

topic:happiness suffering

“It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

topic:women

“men are always the same. Fear makes them cruel…”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

topic:fear men cruelty

“Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

topic:beauty soul art

“I do not speak of that greatness which is achieved by the fortunate politician or the successful soldier; that is a quality which belongs to the place he occupies rather than to the man; and a change of circumstances reduces it to very discreet...”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

topic:greatness

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