Quote #102
The sad Don Quixote of a worthless purpose. - p.198
More from William Somerset Maugham
- '...religion is...a conspiracy of...priests to gain control over the people...' - p.192
- Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did …
- '...in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.' - p.146
- The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
- Passion doesn't count the cost. ... Passion is destructive. - p.138
- Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
- ...women are always glad to listen when you discourse upon love... - p.137
- Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.