W. Somerset Maugham Quote

We are like people living in a country whose language they know so little that, with all manner of beautiful and profound things to say, they are condemned to the banalities of the conversation manual. Their brain is seething with ideas, and they can only tell you that the umbrella of the gardener's aunt is in the house.


The Moon and Sixpence (1919)


We are like people living in a country whose language they know so little that, with all manner of beautiful and profound things to say, they are...

We are like people living in a country whose language they know so little that, with all manner of beautiful and profound things to say, they are...

We are like people living in a country whose language they know so little that, with all manner of beautiful and profound things to say, they are...

We are like people living in a country whose language they know so little that, with all manner of beautiful and profound things to say, they are...