Pankaj Dey

“For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poets they read, and the God they believed in. It is all these things that have made them what they are, and these are the things that you can't come to know by hearsay...”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor’s Edge

“The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor’s Edge

“Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

“Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations