When things are at their worst, I find something always happens. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“here’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness. It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It is astonishing how many books I find there is no need for me to read at all. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I shall beat you,' he said, looking at her. How else should I know you loved me,' she answered.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It takes two to make a love affair and a mans meat is too often a woman's poison. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Love is not always blind and there are few things that cause greater wretchedness than to love with all your heart someone… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
He exulted in the possession of himself once more; he realized how much of the delight of the world he had lost… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
When a man's in love, he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on the top of them… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Though I said that affection was the greatest enemy of love, I would never deny that it's a very good substitute. I'm… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“A man thinks it quite natural that he should fall out of love with a woman, but it never strikes him for… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“His love became a prison from which he longed to escape, but he had not the strength merely to open the door-that… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“He was terribly conscious that he only had one life and it seemed to sad to think that he had wasted it.… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“C.-C.: Tell me frankly, Kitty, don't you think people make a lot of unnecessary fuss about love? LADY KITTY: It's the most… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
You know, when one's in love,' I said, 'and things go all wrong, one's terribly unhappy and one thinks one won't ever… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
For men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes place among the other affairs of the day, and the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“They seemed to love one another as-I hesitate to say passionately, for passion has in it always a shade of sadness, a… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“When I look back now and reflect on that brief passionate love of Red and Sally, I think that perhaps they should… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“All sensible people know that vanity is the most devastating, the most universal, and the most ineradicable of the passions that afflict… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I had no illusions about you,' he said. 'I knew you were silly and frivolous and empty-headed. But I loved you. I… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“They were talking more distantly than if they were strangers who had just met, for if they had been he would have… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
No woman is worth more than a fiver unless you're in love with her. Then she's worth all she costs you. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“A man thinks it quite natural that he should fall out of love with a woman, but it never strikes him for a moment… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
“A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, but in his book… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
“There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in having ploughed a thousand fields.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
“I wanted to live again and again. I was willing to accept every sort of life, no matter what its pain and sorrow; I… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
“His love became a prison from which he longed to escape, but he had not the strength merely to open the door-that was all… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
“A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
“When people say they do not care what others thing of them, for the most part they deceive themselves” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
![“Though I said that affection was the greatest enemy of love, I would never deny that it's a very good substitute. I'm not sure that a marriage founded on it isn't the happiest. [The book-bag]” quote by W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a76/w-somerset-maugham-237_affection_though-i-said-that-affection-was-the-gre_310567.jpg)
