Famous Quotes & Sayings

W. Somerset Maugham

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

For men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes place among the other affairs of the day, and the emphasis laid on it in novels gives it an importance which is untrue to life. There are few men to whom it is the most important thing in the world, and they are not the very interesting ones; even women, with whom the subject is of paramount interest, have a contempt for them.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.

W. Somerset Maugham

It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?' The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly. Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he's in love with you.' Didn't you mean them?' At the moment.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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.

Vladimir Nabokov

I think it is all a matter of love...

Vladimir Nabokov

It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.

Vladimir Nabokov

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Yoko Ono

Love is what I give to the one I love.

Yoko Ono

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.

Yoko Ono

When you say 'I love you', you are not just saying it to that person. You are saying 'I love you' to yourself, the planet & The Universe.

Yoko Ono

And the more you are active about something you love, the world is going to be a better place.

Yoko Ono

Remember love. Remember our hearts are one. Even when we are fighting with each other, our hearts are beating in unison. I love you.

Yoko Ono

I love to work. Doing things we love is how we relax, I think.

Yakov Smirnoff

If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

The deepest love is often hidden.

Yann Martel

Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to exploit the new and the alien, its zeal in robbing words from other languages, its incapacity to feel qualms over the matter, its museum-size overabundance of vocabulary, it shoulder-shrug approach to spelling, its don't-worry-be-happy concern for grammar-the result was a language whose colour and wealth Henry loved.

Wyclef Jean

Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.

Wyclef Jean

The voice of an Angel, the Heart of a Lamb, the spirit of a Lioness, the presence of a Goddess, love you R.I.P Whitney Houston.

Wyndham Lewis

To give up another person's love is a mild suicide; like a very bad inoculation as compared to the full disease.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I choose such notes that love one another.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Willie Robertson

I would love to continue to model. It just depends on what opportunities I get, of course, I want to always stay true to who I am and make sure in everything I do God is getting the glory. If modeling is one of those things that keeps presenting itself to me, I would love to do it and continue to get more involved.