W. Somerset Maugham Love Quotations

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.

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

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

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

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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