Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound.


A traveller in romance: uncollected writings 1901-1964 (ed. Vintage, 1984)

W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound.

Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound.

Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound.

Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound.