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
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
“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
“Grief she could not feel, for there had been too much bitterness between her mother and herself to leave in her heart… — 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
“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
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
“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
“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 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/quotes/i/a76/w-somerset-maugham-237_affection_though-i-said-that-affection-was-the-gre_310567.jpg)
