W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

I just love Rome. It really does cast a spell on you.

I would like to get a house in Tuscany: aside from New York, cities do not appeal to me anymore.

If you are a reader of 'Harper's Bazaar,' to me, you are a woman who loves fashion, but not just fashion; you love fashion, you love travel, you love art, you love music.

I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.

I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time - the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place.

I love Italy and I say I am from Italy wherever I go.

I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy.

Rome is one of my favourite cities in the world.

I would love to take a road trip across Italy in an Aston Martin S Coupe.

Italy was where the soul went to find calm and love, and I wanted to hold the best of it in the palm of my hand.

To desire to be perpetually in the society of a pretty woman until the end of one's days, is as if, because one likes good wine, one wished always to have one's mouth full of it.

I lived in Rome for about five or six months during Life Aquatic.

It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.

He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it.

Italia! O Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty.

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Italy is a dream that keeps returning for the rest of your life.

Those have not lived who have not seen Rome.

I always say that a girl never really looks as well as she does on board a steamship, or even a yacht.

An unsatisfied woman requires luxury, but a woman who is in love with a man will lie on a board.

Spend all you have for loveliness.

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

His voice was like honey and velvet. "Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath, hath had no power yet upon thy beauty," he murmured, and I recognized the line spoken by Romeo in the tomb.

That the sky is brighter than the earth means little unless the earth itself is appreciated and enjoyed. Its beauty loved gives the right to aspire to the radiance of the sunrise and sunset.

A romantic, I think, picks the rose and is careless with the thorn.