W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

I don't hate you, I love you, you're part of myself, you're my heart and when you go it's my heart torn out and carried away--

Did you fall in love with her?" "I care about her. A lot." "You're not supposed to marry someone if you don't fall in love with her." "Well, love is a choice, too." Holly shook her head. "I think it's something that happens to you." Mark smiled into her small, earnest face. "Maybe it's both," he said, and tucked her in.

Being in love doesn't mean loving.

No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it.

And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.

I don't know if love exists, not the kind that keeps. I think love's an infatuation that turns into a habit, because you can't keep that passion going. You get used to people, and that's death for me - I like to be surprised.

If I have to leave, I don't want to leave without another ring.

Love goes toward love.

I love you. I'm blind for you, wild for you. Sick with you. I told you that our first night together when I asked you to marry me, I am telling you now. Everything that's happened to us, everything, is because I crossed the street for you. I worship you. You know that through and through.

Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.

Man and woman, love, what is it? A cork and a bottle.

She really does like him, she likes lying next to him, she wants to be around him; when you get down to it, can you say that about many people?

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

The way i see it, love is just a bigger, stickier form of trust.

How desperately we wish to maintain our trust in those we love! In the face of everything, we try to find reasons to trust. Because losing faith is worse than falling out of love.

In their early passions women are in love with the lover, later they are in love with love.

When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots are become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part.

LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.

You looove me. You love me this much.

This isn’t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles on birthdays; life insurance. Babies. Love’s a dictator.

Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me.
 Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could.

As far as I know, you can fancy someone, you can enjoy their company or you can wish them well. But what being in love is, I don't know.

Tis Love alone can make our Fetters please.

I do wanna get married. It just sounds great. You get to go grocery shopping together, rent videos, and the kissing and the hugging and the kissing and the hugging under the cozy covers. Mmmm! But sometimes I worry that I don't wanna get married as much as I want to get dipped in a vat of warm, rising bread dough. That might feel pretty good, too.

Love doesn't care what we call it.