W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

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

As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.

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

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

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

Man has his will, but woman has her way.

A woman is more considerate in affairs of love than a man; because love is more the study and business of her life.

Man's love is of man's life a thing apart;Girls aren't like that.

A woman findeth in her last lover much of her first love; but a man seeth his next-to-the-last love, alway.

And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity; in a girl, it is boldness.

Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.

Love which is only an episode in the life of men, is the entire history of the life of women.

You seem to be absolutely unaware of the phenomenon of marriage - which is destructive to both man and woman. Love is creative, marriage is destructive. But love is not dependable: this moment it may be there and the next moment gone. And man wants permanent things; he is obsessed with permanent things. He wants security, safety, he wants to cling. Hence love is not reliable, so he created marriage.

There are women who never had an intrigue; but there are scarce any who never had but one.

Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.

Woman is the Sunday of man: not his repose only, but his joy; the salt of his life.

No people find each other more absurd than lovers

Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.

If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.

An unsatisfied woman requires luxury, but a woman who is in love with a man will lie on a board.

The first symptom of true love in a man is timidity, in a young woman, boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each other and assuming each the other's qualities.

Guys think of love as a feeling, which means that if you do something wrong you can still love somebody. So guys are constantly screwing up and then saying, "But I love you!" And girls have a different standard for love.

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

Boy Meets Girl, So What?

Always admired men who had many women. It must be that to a child of a dissatisfied woman the idea of monogamy is hollow.