W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

My true love hath my heart, and I have his

Could you be loved and be loved?

I think romantic passion is wanting a little something in return.

That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get from each other and that's determined by how much you're Giving to each other... But it all starts Within our self and then it spreads to those around us, Good & Bad. But basically that's it, I think it's the Love that we can generate is = to the Love that we get back Amen

A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.

I can resist you or flee from you or try my hardest not to respond to you, but it makes no difference. You fall in love with me, and I with you". Daniel to Luce Page 352

You would give your life for your little baby. It's not the same when you are in a sexual relationship unless you feel that you are loved as you love.

Love requited is a short circuit.

Lovers to-day and for all time Preserve the meaning of my rhyme: Love is not kindly nor yet grim But does to you as you to him.

Find someone to love . . . and, oh, someone to love you.

He who loves others is always loved by them, and he who respects others is always respected by them.

... only love begets love.

If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that other in return.

Love for thy love , and hand for hand I give.

Take it and return it: the kiss of love.

And you can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return.

If you think you love me, then you don’t know what love is,' Gabriel said. 'Love has to be reciprocated for it to be real.

You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.

While I loved, and while I was loved, what an existence I enjoyed!

Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake the sleepers. ‘But it won’t - that’s the devil,’ he added in the same undertone.

If a man we don't know phones us up one day and talks a little, makes no suggestions, says nothing special, but nevertheless pays us the kind of attention we rarely receive, we're quite capable of going to bed with him that night, feeling relatively in love. That's what we women are like, and there's nothing wrong with that - it's the nature of the female to open herself to love easily.

Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.