Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“They're a funny lot, suicides. I remember one man who couldn't get any work to do and his wife died, so he… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“And the poor lady, so small in her black satin, shrivelled up and sallow, with her funny corkscrew curls, took the little… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
He knew that all things human are transitory and therefore that it must cease one day or another. He looked forward to… — 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
“I do not suppose she had ever really cared for her husband, and what I had taken for love was no more… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“No pain in love is so hard to bear as that which comes from the impossibility of doing any service from the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he's in love with you." "Didn't… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity. — 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
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
“I don't ask you to forgive me. I don't ask you to love me as you used to love me. But couldn't… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Nature has neither love nor hate, and with indifference smiles upon the light at heart and to the heavy brings a deeper… — 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
When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully. — 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
“No one ever died of love yet," said the prioress with a savage bitterness.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love.… — 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
