W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

There is a fundamental difference between men and women - women need romance, men need intrigue.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.

It's funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.

Women are more likely to have sex and fall in love, which can be tough because that's not the way men work.

Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

When a man falls in love, he wants to go to bed. When a woman falls in love, she wants to talk about it.

Men fall in love faster than, and just as often as, women.

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.

I've always maintained that men were more romantic than women.

When you're just shagging girls, you can talk about it, but once it gets real, then you don't.

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.

I love having a man in my life, and being his woman at the end of the day. I know it's a dichotomy.

Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

Men want to make women happy.

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

It takes me so long to get tired of a man. It's women that are the problem. Don't get me wrong. I think men have their problems just as much as women.

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.

And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.

I love female company. I love men, but women are different.

In France a woman will not go to sleep until she has talked over affairs of state with her lover or her husband.