Descriptive-prose Quote by Somerset Maugham Download Open image ““The summer came upon the country like a conqueror.”” — Somerset Maugham ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Descriptive-prose Patriotism Summer
“when summer was still a word plump and generous and there was actual sunshine and time was impossibly deliciously luxuriously long and the idea… — Niall Williams Copy Share Image
“The Kiddles had come and conquered. Life was stronger than death.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“We’re rescued all right. Summer’s ridden in and saved the day like a tiny, breathless, Asian badass, guns blazing.” — Ruby Dixon Copy Share Image
“But it was more than that. There was an indefinable ingredient, a kind of excitement. It had something to do with history and the… — Barbara Vine Copy Share Image
“And they both sat there, grown up, yet children at heart; and it was summer, - warm, beautiful summer.” — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
“It was a lovely afternoon - such an afternoon as only September can produce when summer has stolen back for one more day of… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“...with two lovers there is always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved; it is bitter truth to which most of… — Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Himself an ugly man, insignificant of appearance, he prized very highly comeliness in others.” — Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.” — Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.” — Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“You're mistaken in thinking I'm unhappy. T have a great deal too much to do to think of you very often.” — Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Only the poet or the saint can water an asphalt pavement in the confident anticipation that lilies will reward his labour.” — Somerset maugham Copy Share Image
“I have noticed that when someone asks for you on the telephone and, finding you out, leaves a message begging you to call him… — Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“...it is well known that to praise someone whose rivalry you do not dread is often a very good way of putting a spoke… — Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Chi non riesce in nessun altra cosa di solito si mette a scrivere.” — Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. — Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.” — Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Night came early to this neighborhood, the sun fleeing the sky, leaving heaven black and blue.” — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
“There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Even as winter comes, mornings are crisp, and the big, blue sky seems to hang newly washed over the sea of hills.” — Deborah Lawrenson Copy Share Image
“Around the outside of the room other beautiful women wearing little or nothing at all flitted between the infatuated, intoxicated men, sometimes luring them… — R.D. Ronald Copy Share Image
“The blast of hot air lifted Tazeem from his feet and threw him onto his back in the road. He blinked up into the… — R.D. Ronald Copy Share Image
“...because of the foulness of her mother's emotional river, a current which ran swift, changing its path without warning...” — Tamara Rose Blodgett Copy Share Image
“The vampire moved as a unit, talons extended, fangs sprung free of their houses of flesh. They came to where the delectable smell of… — Tamara Rose Blodgett Copy Share Image
“A shaft of moonlight illuminated a row of sentinel silver birch in a phosphorescent glow, appearing almost ethereal in the relative surrounding gloom. Boris… — R.D. Ronald Copy Share Image
“The most dreadful scenes, the worst in Dante's Inferno, for example, can be visualized by the inner eye; and sounds, too, are conveyed to… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
“Her shoes were comfortable. They reflected her hope for the evening.” — William Peter Blatty Copy Share Image
