It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.Philip Carey
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.W. Somerset Maugham
You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.Philip Carey
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.W. Somerset Maugham
But beauty... she was like a goddess at Olympia; the wonder of the immortal as well as the beauty of life, and mysterious as well.Philip Carey
When I am bored I have a nervous feeling that is intolerable to me.W. Somerset Maugham
It's always seemed to me that to want to do good to one's fellow creatures is the highest form of vanity.Philip Carey
I used to dream of a life of adventure and romance.. and here I am a commonplace creature leading a life of commonplace duties, and perhaps even glad of it.W. Somerset Maugham
Money gives you the power to be generous.Philip Carey
Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.W. Somerset Maugham