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W. Somerset Maugham Quotes about Love

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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

W. Somerset Maugham
Love, Life, Change
W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.

W. Somerset Maugham
Love, Life, Heartbreak
"A Writer's Notebook" by W. Somerset Maugham, Country Life Press, (p. 13), 1949.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

W. Somerset Maugham
Love, Life, Change
W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.

W. Somerset Maugham
Love, Men, Happens

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham
Love, Life, Important
W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “Of Human Bondage”, p.760, The Floating Press

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham
Love, Life, Human Bondage
Of Human Bondage ch. 71 (1915)

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

W. Somerset Maugham
Love, Relationship, Women
W. Somerset Maugham (2006). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.117, Courier Corporation

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

W. Somerset Maugham
Love, Sarcastic, Depressing

The tragedy of love is indifference.

W. Somerset Maugham
Love, Life, Tragedy
The Trembling of a Leaf ch. 4 (1921)

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham
Love, Men, Madly In Love
W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “The Painted Veil”, p.52, Random House

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham
Love, Sacrifice, Men
Moon and Sixpence (1919) ch. 41

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.

W. Somerset Maugham
Love, Men, Long

When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.

W. Somerset Maugham
Love, Age, Aging
The Circle

Love is not always blind and there are few things that cause greater wretchedness than to love with all your heart someone who you know is unworthy of love.

W. Somerset Maugham
Love, Heart, Who You Know
W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

It takes two to make a love affair and a mans meat is too often a woman's poison.

W. Somerset Maugham
Love, Two, Meat
W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.

W. Somerset Maugham
Love, Believe, Men

A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.

W. Somerset Maugham
Love, Women, Sacrifice
Circle (1921) act 3

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