When a woman loves you she's not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she's weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
W. Somerset Maugham
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ANONYMOUS You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her IVAN PANIN The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, ... CHARLES MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never... THOMAS HARDY The mayor has let her rage, her distaste for Ray Hunt, cloud her vision. We have a mayor who thinks ... ED OAKLEY There is no greater heaven than the heart of a loving mother She takes care of you when you are... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA A woman who has a sense of humor possesses no refuge from the merciless truth about herself. She can... L.M. MONTGOMERY I just love the fact that a man possesses something that a woman can never understand because we don... CAMERON DIAZ When a man finds this kind of woman, he will go all out for her knowing that she will not be a letdo... JAACHYNMA N.E. AGU You can read her mind only if she lets you. She will let you only if she loves you. TAPAN GHOSH Dont ever underestimate a woman that may have eyes of an angel and beauty like that of a goddess bec... PATRICE TILLMON The woman is a reflection of her man's love. A well-loved woman sees the world through the lenses of... ALEXANDRA PINTO A woman has to change her nature if she is to be a wife. She has to learn to curb her tongue, to sup... PHILIPPA GREGORY If you kiss her cheeks, she is your friend; if you kiss her lips, she is your lover; if you kiss her... MATSHONA DHLIWAYO A woman is like a tea bag, you can not tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water NANCY REAGAN Do not sit next to my mother when she is watching one of her children compete because you will have ... DIANA LOPEZ No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mo... MARGARET SANGER Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. MARLENE DIETRICH Praise not the day until evening has come, a woman until she is burnt, a sword until it is tried, a ... MICHAEL CRICHTON Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up arou... MARGARET SANGER A friendship has but one chief adversary and that is envy. It is sired by resentment with the potent... DONNA LYNN HOPE The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she c... AUDREY HEPBURN She was nothing but a woman who put other people in front of herself. She cared so much about her ki... NICOLE BROWN The Warrior Woman Code: A confident woman doesn't beg a man to stay, cry if they don't or... SHANNON L. ALDER I knew that my niece was working nearby with some bank, so my wife rang up the mother and the mother... LEE KUAN YEW Do not be troubled for a language,cultivate your soul and she will show herself EUGENE DELACROIX Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself. EUGENE DELACROIX When a woman puts on a heel, she has a different posture, a different attitude. She really stands up... CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN Don’t resent a woman for who she is not; love her for who she is. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Let a woman have her place, because as you provide foundation for her, she provides a foundation for... SHEMAR MOORE As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied OSCAR WILDE When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her ... JASON EVERT A woman of faith is a bird soaring freely over a canyon trusting in the wind to lift her wings when ... VALERIE ROSE STERRETT You don't love a woman because she's beautiful,
She is beautiful because you love her. OLASOT A woman never knows what she really wants until she fins out what her husband cannot afford. SOURCE UNKNOWN A woman is like your shadow - follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows CHAMFORT She's persistent, efficient, a strong advocate for prevention and she's reliable. She will be there ... LEN PARKER The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman ... G.K. CHESTERTON When change cometh, she will bring peace at her back. She will not bend to your will; you must bend ... ADRIANA MATHER She seems to be a very bright woman. I've met her. But she's lost her progressive following because ... SUSAN SARANDON And I understand my sisters when they say every woman has a story that's been told a maxim of one so... MARK GONZALES When a woman has lost her chastity, she will shrink from no
crime.
[Lat., Neque femina amissa pud... TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she lov... BOB MARLEY As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied. OSCAR WILDE The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman ... G. K. CHESTERTON It's crazy to watch. There were camera crews waiting for her when she went into rookie orientation a... MORGAN PRESSEL She is the night. She is the stars. Her soul soars and her mind races. She has a beauty that is unfa... BLAKE WILBANKS She hasn’t got it all figured out...far from it, in fact. But she loves God and she loves to ... MANDY HALE Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-relia... THOMAS HARDY Because I think she loves you more than she loves sex. And you love her more than you love alcohol, ... KRISTA RITCHIE Women relate to Ivana because she suffered. If she is over the top with her wardrobe, or the things ... CINDY ADAMS There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she ha... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart... ANNA AKHMATOVA When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of he... MARY AUSTIN Because Melissa McCarthy actually is a fat woman, she isn't allowed to make brash statements abo... JENNIFER ARMINTROUT A woman who focuses on worshiping God will consider carefully how she is dressed, because her heart ... ELIZABETH GEORGE Thou givest life and love for Greece and Right:
I will stand by thee lest thou shouldst be weak,
... WILLIAM JAMES LINTON There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the... HOMER A writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because... JUNOT DIAZ
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SOMERSET MAUGHAM There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is er... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up. W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're ... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty o... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the ... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is er... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it. W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It's a relief then to deal with a man w... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue. W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Life isn't long enough for love and art. W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM When things are at their worst I find something always happens. W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, pe... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved. W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to th... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefo... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM The important thing was to love rather than to be loved. W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure. W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesth... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know the... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM You Europeans know nothing about America. Because we amass large fortunes you think we care for noth... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by butteri... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM