Look after your laundry, and your soul will look after itself. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
When a woman loves you she's not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she's weak, she has a rage for domination,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked: it was… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Women are strange little beasts,' he said to Dr. Coutras. 'You can treat them like dogs, you can beat them till your… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I know that I shall die struggling for breath, and I know that I shall be horribly afraid. I know that I… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
This love was a torment, and he resented bitterly the subjugation in which it held him; he was a prisoner and he… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I was a stray acquaintance whom he had never seem before and would never see again, a wandered for a moment through… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“[The goal is] "liberation from the bondage of rebirth. According to the Vedantists the self, which they call the atman and we… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“A man thinks it quite natural that he should fall out of love with a woman, but it never strikes him for a moment… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, but in his book… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in having ploughed a thousand fields.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I wanted to live again and again. I was willing to accept every sort of life, no matter what its pain and sorrow; I… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“His love became a prison from which he longed to escape, but he had not the strength merely to open the door-that was all… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image