William Somerset Maugham idézet oldal 3

„Az ember legtöbbször nem azokat a kísértéseket bánja meg, amelyeknek engedett, hanem azokat, amelyeknek ellenállt.”

Idézetek forrás nélkül

„Úgy hiszem, egy járvány során éppoly sok ember hal meg félelelmből, mint fertőzés következtében.”

Idézetek forrás nélkül

„Kritikát kérnek tőled, de dicséretet szeretnének.”

Idézetek forrással

„A regényírásnak három szabálya van. Sajnos senki sem tudja, mik azok.”

Idézetek forrással

„A pénz a hatodik érzék, amely lehetővé teszi számodra, hogy élvezd a másik ötöt.”

Idézetek forrás nélkül

„Emberek arra kérnek, bíráld őket bátran, valójában pedig arra számítanak, hogy dicséretet fognak hallani.”

Idézetek forrással

William Somerset Maugham idézetek

„Igazat bárki tud írni, de csak kevesen tudunk epigrammákat.”

Idézetek forrás nélkül

„A szerelem csak egy ócska trükk, amit a természet játszik velünk, hogy fennmaradjon a fajunk.”

Idézetek forrás nélkül

„Ha egy házaspár nem jön ki egymással, elválhatnak, de ha nem házasok, akkor ez lehetetlen. Ez egy olyan kötelék, amit csak a halál választhat szét.”

Idézetek forrás nélkül

„Furcsa dolog az élet, ha nem vagy hajlandó elfogadni mást csak a legjobbat, akkor nagyon gyakran meg is kapod azt!”

Idézetek forrás nélkül

“The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.”

Idézetek forrás nélkül

William Somerset Maugham: Idézetek angolul

“You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance, and the humorist, with a smile and perhaps a sigh, is more likely to shrug his shoulders than to condemn.”

W. Somerset Maugham könyv The Summing Up

Forrás: The Summing Up (1938), p. 185

“…we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.”

W. Somerset Maugham könyv The Summing Up

Forrás: The Summing Up (1938), p. 67

“Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.”

W. Somerset Maugham könyv The Summing Up

Forrás: The Summing Up (1938), p. 64

“The sad Don Quixote of a worthless purpose.”

W. Somerset Maugham könyv The Moon and Sixpence

Forrás: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 14, p. 54

“You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.”

W. Somerset Maugham könyv The Razor's Edge

p, 125
The Razor's Edge (1943)

“But who can fathom the subtleties of the human heart? Certainly not those who expect from it only decorous sentiments and normal emotions.”

W. Somerset Maugham The Circle

The Circle
Plays

“It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.”

W. Somerset Maugham könyv The Moon and Sixpence

Forrás: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 43, p. 154

“She had a very agreeable smile; it did not light up her face suddenly, but seemed rather to suffuse it by degrees with charm. It hesitated for a moment about her lips and then slowly travelled to those great shining eyes of hers and there softly lingered.”

Forrás: Cakes and Ale: Or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard (1930), p. 157

“Passion doesn't count the cost. … Passion is destructive.”

"The promise", p. 407
Short Stories, Collected short stories 1

“He loved her so passionately he wanted her to be one soul and one body with him; and he was conscious that here, with those deep roots attaching her to the native life, she would always keep something from him.”

W. Somerset Maugham könyv The Razor's Edge

p, 125
The Razor's Edge (1943)

“I was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.”

"The pool", p. 123
Short Stories, Collected short stories 1

“I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul’s good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man, and it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.”

"Death" in Sheppey, Act III (1933)
Plays

“The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.”

W. Somerset Maugham könyv The Moon and Sixpence

Forrás: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 2, p. 11

“No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk—handsome, twentytwoyearold.”

W. Somerset Maugham könyv The Summing Up

Forrás: The Summing Up (1938), p. 182

“I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. … They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.”

Vladimir Mayakovsky, The Cloud in Trousers
Misattributed

“I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues.”

W. Somerset Maugham könyv The Summing Up

Forrás: The Summing Up (1938), p. 1

“The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.”

W. Somerset Maugham könyv The Summing Up

Forrás: The Summing Up (1938), p. 71

“It was not till quite late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say: "I don't know."”

Moses Mendelssohn, Briefe über die Empfindungen (1755)
Misattributed

“It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.”

Forrás: A Writer's Notebook (1946), p. 258

“What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably… have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.”

Thomas Babington Macaulay, On John Dryden (1828)
Misattributed

“Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.”

Newsweek, 23 May, 1960

“Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.”

W. Somerset Maugham könyv The Summing Up

Forrás: The Summing Up (1938), p. 223

“The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.”

Quoted in Somerset Maugham (1980) by Ted Morgan

“The crown of literature is poetry.”

W. Somerset Maugham könyv Of Human Bondage

Forrás: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 106

“The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.”

Matthew Arnold, Count Leo Tolstoi
Misattributed

“By the time I was twenty-four I had constructed a complete system of philosophy. It rested on two principles: The Relativity of Things and The Circumferentiality of Man. I have since discovered that the first was not a very original discovery. It may be that the other was profound, but though I have racked my brains I cannot for the life of me remember what it was.”

Forrás: 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 könyv The Summing Up

section 66
The Summing Up (1938)

“She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer made her confident way towards the white cliffs of the obvious.”

W. Somerset Maugham könyv The Summing Up

Forrás: The Summing Up (1938), p. 51

“I reflected, while I chatted with the woman I had been asked to ‘take in’, that civilized man practises a strange ingenuity in wasting on tedious exercises the brief span of his life.”

Forrás: A Writer's Notebook (1946), p. 189