W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

We women take love too seriously. Men wish to be loved with laughter, not with sighing. So laugh, sweetheart, laugh, or soon you may be weeping.

Physics is not the most important thing. Love is.

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

Men are not very good at loving, but they are experts at admiring and respecting; the woman who goes after their admiration and respect will often come out better than she who goes out after their love.

I suppose middle-aged love is interesting for middle-aged people.

I love being in love. I don't think anything compares with it, though I consider it very disruptive.

Love is not a victory march

Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.

A woman in love is a very poor judge of character.

Two different things. Work is survival, and love sustains you. You have work anytime. But love? Not always.

If love is a play, this play, as old as the world, fiasco or not, it is, all in all, the least bad thing that has so far been found. The roles are trite, I admit, but if the play had no value the whole universe wouldn’t know it by heart

For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.

Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.

Had Elizabeth Bennet known how wildly Darcy's heart beat for her, 'Pride and Prejudice' would barely have made it into a short story. Their torturously slow-burning romance is a classic example of how men and women still struggle to communicate the most basic of emotions.

Men who like women rarely fall in love.

Whether you're married or not, relationships - and the satisfaction tied to them - are extremely important for increasing men's and women's quality of life.

I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face.

A lot of the women I know, that's what they're complaining about - either the man in their life or the lack of a man in their life.

As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.

Women are the real reason we get up every day. I'm talking about real men. If there were no women, I would not even have to bathe, because why would I care? These are guys I'm hanging with. I wake up for a woman every day of my life to make it happen for her.

Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.

Men want to make women happy.

Being in love is the best thing in my life.

I don't think I've left a trail of weeping women in my wake. I mean, the number of serious relationships I've had has not been into double digits.