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Women Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- And I have the sunset, and the Tuscan wine, and the white teeth of the women in Rome. I am a traveler in Romance.
- A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.
- The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as…
- No woman is worth more than a fiver unless you're in love with her. Then she's worth all she costs you.
- Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two.
- The first duty of a woman is to be pretty, the second is to be well-groomed, and the third is never to contradict.
- A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if she isn't pretty it won't do her much good.
- Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
- Marco Polo tells the tale of The Old Man in the Mountains and how he recruits new members to his Band of Assassins by means…
- No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman.
- In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
- For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or farm in which…
- I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It…
- The last words he said to me when I bade him good-night were: Tell Amy it's no good coming after me. Anyhow, I shall change…
- I could have forgiven it if he'd fallen desperately in love with someone and gone off with her. I should have thought that natural. I…
- Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed.
- As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
- For men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes place among the other affairs of the day, and the emphasis laid on…
- When a woman loves you she's not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she's weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less…
- Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's…
- Women are strange little beasts,' he said to Dr. Coutras. 'You can treat them like dogs, you can beat them till your arm aches, and…
- Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
- She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate.
- 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 a liar and…
- One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.
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- The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. — Bella Abzug
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