The Hero Quotes

“No pain in love is so hard to bear as that which comes from the impossibility of doing any service from the well-beloved, and no service is so repulsive that love cannot make it delightful and easy.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Hero

“You must know what life is. One can do no good by shutting one's eyes to everything that doesn't square with a shoddy, false ideal.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Hero

“And they had a fairly pleasant time in Pretoria. Eventually, I believe, wars will be quite bloodless; rival armies will perambulate, and whenever one side has got into a good position, the other will surrender wholesale.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Hero

“contemned”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Hero