W. Somerset Maugham Quotes About Love

Quotes about: Love

• 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.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Love, Life, Change

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

• There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Love, Life, Human Bondage

  Of Human Bondage ch. 71 (1915)

• As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Love, Relationship, Women

  W. Somerset Maugham (2006). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.117, Courier Corporation

• The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Love, Life, Important

  W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “Of Human Bondage”, p.760, The Floating Press

• The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Love, Life, Change

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

• The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Love, Life, Heartbreak

  "A Writer's Notebook" by W. Somerset Maugham, Country Life Press, (p. 13), 1949.

• Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Love, Sarcastic, Depressing

• Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Love, Men, Happens

• 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.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Love, Sacrifice, Men

  Moon and Sixpence (1919) ch. 41

• Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Love, Men, Madly In Love

  W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “The Painted Veil”, p.52, Random House

• A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Love, Women, Sacrifice

  Circle (1921) act 3

• When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Love, Age, Aging

  The Circle

• The tragedy of love is indifference.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Love, Life, Tragedy

  The Trembling of a Leaf ch. 4 (1921)

• 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.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Love, Believe, Men

• By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Love, Men, Long

• It takes two to make a love affair and a mans meat is too often a woman's poison.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Love, Two, Meat

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

• 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.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Love, Heart, Who You Know

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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