Lydia Mcconnell

“She had no mercy. He looked at her neck and thought how he would like to jab it with the knife he had for his muffin. He knew enough anatomy to make pretty certain of getting the carotid artery. And at the same time he wanted to cover her pale, thin face with kisses.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

“You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.”
― W. Somerset Maugham