W. Somerset Maugham Quotes About Women

Quotes about: Women

• How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.

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  Break Up, Broken Heart, Breakup

  W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “The Painted Veil”, p.70, Random House

• 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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  Love, Relationship, Women

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

• If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.

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  Women, Men, Faults

• 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 will satisfy her.

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  Women, Love You, Soul

  W. Somerset Maugham (2012). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.109, Courier Corporation

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

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  Love, Women, Sacrifice

  Circle (1921) act 3

• No woman is worth more than a fiver unless you're in love with her. Then she's worth all she costs you.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Women, Cost

  W. Somerset Maugham (2011). “A Writer's Notebook”, p.66, Random House

• Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two.

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  Women, Heart, 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.

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  Women, Firsts, Duty

• A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if she isn't pretty it won't do her much good.

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  Women, Good Woman, Wicked

  W. Somerset Maugham (2011). “A Writer's Notebook”, p.26, Random House

• 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 a humbug, I know that you're utterly contemptible. And the tragic part is'--her face was on a sudden distraught with pain--'the tragic part is that notwithstanding I love you with all my heart.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Pain, Selfish, Women

• One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Women, Wish, Human Bondage

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