Maugham Theatre Quotes & Sayings

I don't want anything from you."
"Liar," he accused, and lowered his mouth to mine. — Chloe Neill

The boys and girls in the SVR, many of them former KGB officers, weren't holstering their Makarovs just yet. — Bryan Denson

I think that there are many different ways of getting and staying sober. Like religion, I just don't think that one way is the only way. — Kristen Johnston

I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die. — William Wiley

The problem with hanging on to the '60s is that everyone thought they would go on forever. — Grace Slick

If everyone wants to be somebody, I want to be somebody else — Benny Bellamacina

I was just working in the shop and all of a sudden something just triggered in me and I started shaking. And then I walked back into the house and my wife asked, 'What's the matter?' and I said 'I don't feel good.' And tears - uncontrollable tears - was coming out of my eyes. And she said, 'What's the matter?' And I said 'I just thought about that execution I did two days ago, and everybody else's that I was involved with.' And what it was something triggered within and it just - everybody - all of these executions all of a sudden sprung forward. — Fred Allen

It's during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. — Aristotle Onassis

Is that what we come into the world for, to hurry to an office, and work hour after hour till night, then hurry home and dine and go to a theatre? Is that how I must spend my youth? Youth lasts so short a time, Bateman. And when I am old, what have I to look forward to? To hurry from my home in the morning to my office and work hour after hour after hour till night, and then hurry home again, and dine and go to a theatre? That may be worthwhile if you make a fortune; I don't know, it depends on your nature; but if you don't, is it worth while then? I want to make more out of my life than that, Bateman. — W. Somerset Maugham

Well, it's a choice like any other, even though it's stupid to believe we can control the world and to allow ourselves to be lulled into a false sense of security that leaves us totally unprepared for life; because then, when you least expect it, an earthquake throws up a range of mountains, a bolt of lightning kills a tree that was preparing for its summer rebirth, or a hunting accident puts paid to the life of an honest man. — Paulo Coelho