W. Somerset Maugham Quotes About Love
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It takes two to make a love affair and a mans meat is too often a woman's poison.
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The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.
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By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
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A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.
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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.
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The tragedy of love is indifference.
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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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Love is not always blind and there are few things that cause greater wretchedness than to love with all your heart someone who you know is unworthy of love.
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