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The Painted Veil quotes about love
She could not admit but that he had remarkable qualities, sometimes she thought that there was even in him a strange and unattractive greatness; it was curious then that she could not love him, but loved still a man whose worthlessness was now so clear to her.
— W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
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.
— W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
She’s wonderful. Tell her I’ve never seen such beautiful hands. I wonder what she sees in you.”Waddington, smiling, translated the question.“She says I’m good.”“As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue, ” Kitty mocked.
— W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
They were talking more distantly than if they were strangers who had just met, for if they had been he would have been interested in her just because of that, and curious, but their common past was a wall of indifference between them. Kitty knew too well that she had done nothing to beget her father’s affection, he had never counted in the house and had been taken for granted, the bread-winner who was a little despised because he could provide no more luxuriously for his family; but she had taken for granted that he loved her just because he was her father, and it was a shock to discover that his heart was empty of feeling for her. She had known that they were all bored by him, but it had never occurred to her that he was equally bored by them. He was as ever kind and subdued, but the sad perspicacity which she had learnt in suffering suggested to her that, though he probably never acknowledged it to himself and never would, in his heart he disliked her.
— W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
— W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
— W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.
— W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
I know that you’re selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven’t the nerve of a rabbit, I know you’re a liar and a humbug, I know that you’re utterly contemptible. And the tragic part is’–her face was on a sudden distraught with pain–‘the tragic part is that notwithstanding I love you with all my heart.
— W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?
— W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
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 Painted Veil
How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
— W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
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