Quotes from Christmas Holiday — W. Somerset Maugham
1874–1965 England
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"I'm beginning to think it's very hard to know what to believe in this world."
Christmas Holiday (1939)
"Aren't you missing a lot of fun? You know, one's young for such a little while."
Christmas Holiday (1939)
In point of fact, however, they were much more anxious to tell him about their doings than to listen to his.
Christmas Holiday (1939)
"It's so wonderful to shut out the world for a few hours. Rest, peace, silence, solitude. You would think they were luxuries that only the very rich can afford, and yet they cost nothing. Strange that they should be so hard to come by."
Christmas Holiday (1939)
It was too sweeping a judgement to be satisfactory; the idea dawned in Charley's mind that perhaps men were more complicated than he had imagined, and if you just said that a man was this or that you couldn't get very far.
Christmas Holiday (1939)
It was like one of those comedies where the sets are good and the clothes pretty, where the dialogue is clever and the acting competent, so that you pass an agreeable evening, but a week later cannot remember a thing about it.
Christmas Holiday (1939)
It looked as though the people we thought we knew best carried secrets that they didn't even know themselves. Charley had a sudden inkling that human beings were infinitely mysterious. The fact was that you knew nothing about anybody.
Christmas Holiday (1939)