Collected Short Stories Quotes

“You know, any man can get any woman he wants if he tries hard enough, there's nothing in that, but once he's got her, only a man who thinks the world of women can get rid of her without humiliating her.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Collected Short Stories: Volume 3

“There is a certain elegance in wasting time,’ said Ashenden. ‘Any fool can waste money, but when you waste time you waste what is priceless.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Collected Short Stories: Volume 3 of 4