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W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

W. Somerset Maugham quotes about love

British Playwright, Writer January 25, 1874 – December 16, 1965

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A man thinks it quite natural that he should fall out of love with a woman, but it never strikes him for a moment that a woman can do anything so unnatural as to fall out of love with him. W. Somerset Maugham
There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has no kindness then, no tolerance even, she has only an insane irritation. W. Somerset Maugham
The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care? Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference. W. Somerset Maugham
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. W. Somerset Maugham
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] W. Somerset Maugham
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 still they love you.' He shrugged his shoulders. 'Of course, it is one of the most absurd illusions of Christianity that they have souls. W. Somerset Maugham
C.-C.: Tell me frankly, Kitty, don't you think people make a lot of unnecessary fuss about love? LADY KITTY: It's the most wonderful thing in the world. C.-C.: You're incorrigible. Do you really think it was worth sacrificing so much for? LADY KITTY: My dear Clive, I don't mind telling you that if I had my time over again I should be unfaithful to you, but I should not leave you. W. Somerset Maugham
I think I was a little disappointed in her. I expected then people to be more of a piece than I do now, and I was distressed to find so much vindictiveness in so charming a creature. I did not realize how motley are the qualities that go to make up a human being. Now I am well aware that pettiness and grandeur, malice and charity, hatred and love, can find place side by side in the same human heart. W. Somerset Maugham
W. Somerset Maugham quote: "She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had..."
She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference. W. Somerset Maugham
Are you sure you can prevent yourself from falling in love one of these days? Such things do happen, you know, even to the most prudent men.'Simon gave him a strange, one might even have thought a hostile, look. I should tear it out of my heart as I'd wrench out of my mouth a rotten tooth. W. Somerset Maugham
Yet magic is no more the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will, love, and imagination are magic powers that everyone possesses; and whoever knows how to develop them to their fullest extent is a magician. Magic hs but one dogma, namely, that the seen is the measure of the unseen. W. Somerset Maugham
W. Somerset Maugham quote: "Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but..."
Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed. W. Somerset Maugham
W. Somerset Maugham quote: "Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other."
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other. W. Somerset Maugham
W. Somerset Maugham quote: "Poor slut, I think she loves me,' said Gray, his eyes closed."
Poor slut, I think she loves me,' said Gray, his eyes closed. W. Somerset Maugham
Some of us look for the way in opium and some in God, some of us in whisky and some of us in love. It is all the same way and it leads nowhither. W. Somerset Maugham

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