W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

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.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

Men who like women rarely fall in love.

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

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.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don't understand each other. Not at all! But that's what makes relationships so amazing.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

There are complications in relationships between men and women. There always will be.

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.

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.

Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men

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

It is impossible for a man to love his wife whole heartedly without loving all women somewhat. I suppose that the converse must be true of women.

A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her imagination, and then they both speak of it as an affair of 'the heart.

I think there are so many books out there written on relationships and romance that women are the authors of. How can women know exactly how men think? And there are so many guys out there with relationship books who are just not telling the truth. They have shaded parts.

Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.

The problem is that, partly because we are women, a large measure of our happiness depends on our relationships - including, unavoidably, our relationships with men.

They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.

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

Lots of women love to accuse men of being immature when the fellow in question displays a reluctance to 'commit.'

I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women.

It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

There's always something funny about men chasing women.