“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
This love was a torment, and he resented bitterly the subjugation in which it held him; he was a prisoner and he… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Are you sure you can prevent yourself from falling in love one of these days? Such things do happen, you know, even… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Unless love is passion, it's not love, but something else; and passion thrives not on satisfaction, but on impediment.” — 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
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
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
“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
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
She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“It was a pity that with his great qualities, his unselfishness and honor, his intelligence and sensibility, he should be so unlovable.” — 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
“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
