27 Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham about women

  • Author W. Somerset Maugham
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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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    I've got no mother, no wife, no kids. I had, but my mother's dead, and I lost my wife and my kids when I had my trouble. Women are bitches. It's hard for a chap to live without any affection in his life.

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    How silly men were! Their part in procreation was so unimportant; it was the woman who carried the child through long months of uneasiness and bore it with pain, and yet a man because of his momentary connection made such preposterous claims. Why should that make any difference to him in his feelings towards the child?

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    The first duty of a woman is to be pretty, the second is to be well-groomed, and the third is never to contradict.

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

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