The Moon and Sixpence Quotes

“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

“Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

topic:appearance

“'Why do nice women marry dull men?''Because intelligent men won't marry nice women.'”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

topic:intelligence

“The faculty for myth is innate in the human race. It seizes with avidity upon any incidents, surprising or mysterious, in the career of those who have at all distinguished themselves from their fellows, and invents a legend to which it then...”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

topic:romance mystery

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