W. Somerset Maugham - Women Quotes

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She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate.

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Art... is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

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Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed.

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Women are strange little beasts,' he said to Dr. Coutras. 'You can treat them like dogs, you can beat them till your arm aches, and still they love you.' He shrugged his shoulders. 'Of course, it is one of the most absurd illusions of Christianity that they have souls.

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Don't you know? Because American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.

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He knew that women appreciated neither irony nor sarcasm, but simple jokes and funny stories. He was amply provided with both.

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Women's hearts are like old china…none the worse for a break or two.

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I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves when they have ideas.

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The last words he said to me when I bade him good-night were: Tell Amy it's no good coming after me. Anyhow, I shall change my hotel, so she wouldn't be able to find me.' My own impression is that she's well rid of you,' I said. My dear fellow, I only hope you'll be able to make her see it. But women are very unintelligent.

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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.

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I could have forgiven it if he'd fallen desperately in love with someone and gone off with her. I should have thought that natural. I shouldn't really have blamed him. I should have thought he was led away. Men are so weak, and women are so unscrupulous.

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Women are always glad to listen when you discourse upon love...

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And I have the sunset, and the Tuscan wine, and the white teeth of the women in Rome. I am a traveler in Romance.

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

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

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Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part.

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