Why did you look at the sunset?'Philip answered with his mou... - W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

"Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it."

"I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing."

"I know that I shall die struggling for breath, and I know that I shall be horribly afraid. I know that I shall not be able to keep myself from regretting bitterly the life that has brought me to such a pass; but I disown that regret. I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing."

"Kant thought things, not because they were true, but because he was Kant."

"He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other."