The Painted Veil Quotes

“If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

topic:love men

“It was impossible that he did not love her still. Did you cease to love a person because you had been treated cruelly?”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

topic:love cruelty

“One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

topic:love marriage

“What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

topic:love

“the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead....”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

topic:life beauty art

“one cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

topic:self peace

“What the eye doesn't see the heart doesn't grieve for”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

topic:heart eyes grief

“There are many foolish people in the world and when a man in a rather high position puts on no frills, slaps them on the back, and tells them he'll do anything in the world for them, they are very likely to think him clever.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

topic:power stupidity

“if nobody spoke unless he had something to say . . . the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

topic:speech

“I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

topic:meaning

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