Quote by W. Somerset Maugham Download Open image ““Wounded vanity can make a woman more vindictive than a lioness robbed of her cubs.”” — W. Somerset Maugham ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Of all the weaknesses that beset a man, vanity is the most deadly. For through vanity can a wise man turn to folly.” — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
“You have broken the ice, though you have not even scratched its glossy surface: you have placed your hand upon the croup of the most ferocious and savage, the most wakeful and clear-sighted, the most restless, the swiftest, the most jealous, the most ardent and violent, the simplest and most elegant, the most unreasonable, the most watchful chimera of the… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share
“If my beauty is my greatest weapon, vanity is the shield that protects me.” — Julie C. Dao Copy Share Image
“You'll forgive the flowery talk, won't you? Our family does so love to be told they are beautiful. Vanity is an old and venerable… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Vanity occurs when we think we are invincible. Death occurs to tell us we are not.” — Vinita Kinra Copy Share Image
“Vanity is so firmly anchored in man's heart that a soldier, a camp follower, a cook or a porter will boast and expect admirers,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Women may be vain, but when a man is vain, it is beyond believing, for a man is willing to die for his vanity.” — Susan Sontag The Volcano Lover Copy Share Image
“But no brutality disgusted her: I suppose she has an innate admiration for it, if only her precious person were secure from injury!” — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
“A man thinks it quite natural that he should fall out of love with a woman, but it never strikes him for a moment… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, but in his book… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
“There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in having ploughed a thousand fields.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I wanted to live again and again. I was willing to accept every sort of life, no matter what its pain and sorrow; I… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“His love became a prison from which he longed to escape, but he had not the strength merely to open the door-that was all… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness either for himself or for others; there is in love a sense of weakness, a desire to protect, an eagerness to do good and to give pleasure--if not unselfishness, at all events a selfishness which marvellously… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
