Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

“He did not know how to make her understand that he would be happy, most happy, to become her husband in his turn. He…

— Guy de Maupassant

“Either the woman was incredibly malleable and naive—or she may have been open to enticement, no matter what she told the authorities. Hers is…

— Gaiutra Bahadur

“Consequently he would go about this in a very logical, reasonable way. The fact that he was attracted to Lady Dorothea was not important—and…

— Melanie Dickerson

“When a man don't know his own mind, Miss Shirley, ma'am, how's a poor woman going to be sure of it?”

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

“None was more indifferent to convention than herself, and the marriage tie especially excited her ridicule, but she despised entirely those who disregarded the…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“No one had asked her to marry him, nor was there someone she wished to wed. Not that she did not enjoy the company…

— Janet Wallach

“And although he had never thought a wife with strong opinions was a good thing, he actually found he liked her opinions—or at least…

— Melanie Dickerson

“To judge from their writings, there are certain ladies who think that an amazing ignorance, both of science and of life, is the best…

— George Eliot

“...what woman has ever stopped by a want of information? She felt. And despised him for not acting in accordance with her feelings.”

— John le Carré

“He still had not the slightest understanding of why he had really come; he blamed himself for a late flare of desire crudely masked…

— Herman Wouk

“He was a man who seemed careless of his appearance, very different from the gentlemen with whom she had consorted until a few months…

— Mary Balogh

“People often say that, by pointing out to a man the faults of his mistress, you succeed only in strengthening his atachment to her,…

— Marcel Proust