Painted Veil Quotes

#1. The painted veil which those who live call life

W. Somerset Maugham

#2. I've been through a lot, but I stayed true to who I am.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#3. We are off! The courses and topsails are set: the coral-hung anchor swings from the bow: and together, the three royals are given to the breeze, that follows us out to sea like the baying of a hound.

Herman Melville

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

W. Somerset Maugham

#5. It was a pity that with his great qualities, his unselfishness and honor, his intelligence and sensibility, he should be so unlovable.

W. Somerset Maugham

#6. So the question we are called on to answer is no longer primarily, "can it be built?", but rather, "should it be built?

Ash Maurya

#7. I'm a long way off finishing the LP, but I've got an idea in my head of exactly how I want it to look and sound.

Gold Panda

#8. Romantic love is the story of how you need another person to complete you. It's an absolutely insane story. My experience is that I need no one to complete me. As soon as I realize that, everyone completes me.

Byron Katie

#9. You're mistaken in thinking I'm unhappy. T have a great deal too much to do to think of you very often.

W. Somerset Maugham

#10. The Lemon Tree
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Sandy Tolan

#11. Your eyes look like chocolate," I mumbled.
He smiled. "And yours look like the morning sky.

Kiera Cass

#12. Her pain was so great that she could have screamed at the top of her voice. She had never known that one could suffer so much; and she asked herself desperately what she had done to deserve it.

W. Somerset Maugham

#13. I describe myself as a member of the Church of England, which I suppose is an inoffensive way of saying that you don't believe in anything very much

William Somerset Maugham

#14. Everything passed, and what trace of its passage remained? It seemed to Kitty that they were all, the human race, like the drops of water in that river and they flowed on, each so close to the other and yet so far apart, a nameless flood, to the sea.

W. Somerset Maugham

#15. Everywhere the sky is blue. There are a multitude of cuisines and dishes. I think of them as the languages and dialects of food.

Ferran Adria