Love Quotes Quote by W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.”

“I had no illusions about you,' he said. 'I knew you were silly and frivolous and empty-headed. But I loved you. I knew that your aims and ideals were vulgar and commonplace. But I loved you. I knew that you were second-rate. But I loved you. It's comic when I think how hard I tried to be amused by the things that amused you and how anxious I was to hide from you that I wasn't ignorant and vulgar and scandal-mongering and stupid. I knew how frightened you were of intelligence and I did everything I could to make you think me as big a fool as the rest of the men you knew. I knew that you'd only married me for convenience. I loved you so much, I didn't care. Most people, as far as I can see, when they're in love with someone and the love isn't returned feel that they have a grievance. They grow angry and bitter. I wasn't like that. I never expected you to love me, I didn't see any reason that you should. I never thought myself very lovable. I was thankful to be allowed to love you and I was enraptured when now and then I thought you were pleased with me or when I noticed in your eyes a gleam of good-humored affection. I tried not to bore you with my love; I knew I couldn't afford to do that and I was always on the lookout for the first sign that you were impatient with my affection. What most husbands expect as a right I was prepared to receive as a favor.”

““Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?'”

“If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder.
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“The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.”

“When I look in the mirror, I know I’m looking at someone who isn’t sure she deserves to be loved at all.”

“Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.”

“I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?”

““If my love were an ocean,”