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
As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The first duty of a woman is to be pretty, the second is to be well-groomed, and the third is never to… — 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's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if she isn't pretty it won't do her much good. — 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
“What d'you suppose I care if I'm a gentleman or not? If I were a gentleman I shouldn't waste my time with… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Mrs. MacAndrew shared the common opinion of her sex that a man is always a brute to leave a woman who is… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
When a woman loves you she's not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she's weak, she has a rage for domination,… — 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
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
I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're… — 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
“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
