William Somerset Maugham:
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William Somerset Maugham: Citations en anglais
“…we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.”
W. Somerset Maugham
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The Summing Up
Source: The Summing Up (1938), p. 64
“The sad Don Quixote of a worthless purpose.”
W. Somerset Maugham
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The Razor's Edge
p, 125
The Razor's Edge (1943)
W. Somerset Maugham
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The Moon and Sixpence
Source: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 43, p. 154
“It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.”
Source: Cakes and Ale: Or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard (1930), p. 157
"The promise", p. 407
Short Stories, Collected short stories 1
“Passion doesn't count the cost. … Passion is destructive.”
W. Somerset Maugham
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The Razor's Edge
p, 125
The Razor's Edge (1943)
"The pool", p. 123
Short Stories, Collected short stories 1
“I was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.”
"Death" in Sheppey, Act III (1933)
Plays
Vladimir Mayakovsky, The Cloud in Trousers
Misattributed
“The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.”
Moses Mendelssohn, Briefe über die Empfindungen (1755)
Misattributed
“It was not till quite late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say: "I don't know."”
Source: A Writer's Notebook (1946), p. 258
Thomas Babington Macaulay, On John Dryden (1828)
Misattributed
Newsweek, 23 May, 1960
“Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.”
W. Somerset Maugham
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The Summing Up
Source: The Summing Up (1938), p. 223
“Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.”
Quoted in Somerset Maugham (1980) by Ted Morgan
“The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.”
Source: A Writer's Notebook (1946), p. 13
“…the future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.”
W. Somerset Maugham
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The Summing Up
Source: The Summing Up (1938), p. 51
