Quote by Somerset Maugham
In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but

In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time. – Somerset Maugham

Other quotes by Somerset Maugham

It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it. – Somerset Maugham

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The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones. – Somerset Maugham

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There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks. – Philip G. Hamerton

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There is hardly one in three of us who live in the cities who is not sick with unused self. – Ben Hecht

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The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city. – Oliver Wendell Holmes,Sr.

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All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim. – Christopher Morley, Where the Blue Begins

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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war. – Samuel Butler

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