“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
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. — 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
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
“How strange was the relation between parents and children! When they were small the parents doted on them, passed through agonies of… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“They say that happy people have no history, and certainly a happy love has none. They did nothing all day long and… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray… — 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
She had no mercy. He looked at her neck and thought how he would like to jab it with the knife he… — 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
By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but… — 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
“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
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
“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
“If I have succeeded at all in giving the complicated impression that Strickland made on me, it will not seem outrageous to… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other… — 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
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
One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her. — 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
With the superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without… — 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 Image
“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 Image
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
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 Image
“There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in having ploughed a thousand fields.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“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 Image
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner. — 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 was all… — 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 no tenderness… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
