Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Marriage is always a hopeless idiocy for a woman who has enough of her own to live upon.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
No married man's ever made up his mind until he's heard what his wife has got to say about it. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort… — 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
When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death… — 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
“None was more indifferent to convention than herself, and the marriage tie especially excited her ridicule, but she despised entirely those who… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“He would not have been the first man to find that he loved his wife more when he was parted from her… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I've got no mother, no wife, no kids. I had, but my mother's dead, and I lost my wife and my kids… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“I suppose it was the end of the world for her when her husband and her baby were killed. I suppose she… — 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 must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our… — 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 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 either for himself or for others; there is in love a sense of weakness, a desire to protect, an eagerness to do good and to give pleasure--if not unselfishness, at all events a selfishness which marvellously… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
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