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William Somerset Maugham angol regényíró, elbeszélő és drámaíró; munkáit a világos stílus, a változatos helyszínek és az emberi természet alapos ismerete jellemzi. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. január 1874 – 16. december 1965   •   Más nevek Уильям Сомерсет Моэм
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William Somerset Maugham híres idézetei

„A pénz értéke abban van, hogy bárkinek megmondhatod, menjen a pokolba.”

William Somerset Maugham

Idézetek forrás nélkül

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

William Somerset Maugham

Idézetek forrás nélkül

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

William Somerset Maugham

Idézetek forrással

„Kritikát kérnek tőled, de dicséretet szeretnének.”

William Somerset Maugham

Idézetek forrással

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

William Somerset Maugham

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

William Somerset Maugham

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William Somerset Maugham idézetek

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

William Somerset Maugham

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Emberek

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

William Somerset Maugham

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

William Somerset Maugham

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Természet

„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.”

William Somerset Maugham

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Halál

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

William Somerset Maugham

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William Somerset Maugham: Idézetek angolul

“D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.”

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W. Somerset Maugham könyv Of Human Bondage

Forrás: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 108

“She was making money. But she could not get over the idea that to earn her living was somewhat undignified, and she was inclined to remind you that she was a lady by birth.”

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W. Somerset Maugham könyv The Moon and Sixpence

Forrás: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 17, p. 63

“The great critic … must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.”

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W. Somerset Maugham könyv The Summing Up

Forrás: The Summing Up (1938), p. 223

“Self-doubt, which is the artist’s bitterest enemy.”

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W. Somerset Maugham könyv The Moon and Sixpence

Forrás: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 43, p. 153

“There are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some particular thing that they can't help themselves, they've got to do it. They're prepared to sacrifice everything to satisfy their yearning.”

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W. Somerset Maugham könyv The Razor's Edge

The Razor's Edge (1943)

“It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.”

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W. Somerset Maugham könyv Of Human Bondage

Forrás: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 51

“I have been forced to conclude from this that we know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.”

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W. Somerset Maugham könyv The Summing Up

Forrás: The Summing Up (1938), p. 214

“Of course it was cause and effect, but in the necessity with which follows the other lay all tragedy of life.”

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W. Somerset Maugham könyv Of Human Bondage

Forrás: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 65

“Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.”

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Quoted in Conversations with Willie (1978) by Robin Maugham

“It is very natural that clever young men should be rather odious. They are conscious of gifts that they do not know how to use. They are exasperated with the world that will not recognize their merit. They have something to give, and no hand is stretched out to receive it. They are impatient for the fame they regard as their due.”

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"The voice of the turtle", p. 250
Short Stories, Collected short stories 1

“If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.”

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"1901", p. 76. Sometimes misquoted as "If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing". Sometimes misattributed to Bertrand Russell or Anatole France
A Writer's Notebook (1946)

“The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes…”

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Forrás: Cakes and Ale: Or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard (1930), p. 184

“Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practised at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.”

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Forrás: Cakes and Ale: Or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard (1930), p. 15

“It may be that if I lead the life I've planned for myself it may affect others; the effect may be no greater than the ripple caused by a stone thrown in a pond, but one ripple causes another.”

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W. Somerset Maugham könyv The Razor's Edge

The Razor's Edge (1943)

“Men are always the same. Fear makes them cruel.”

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W. Somerset Maugham könyv The Moon and Sixpence

Forrás: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 55, p. 204

“Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.”

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"1892", p. 1
A Writer's Notebook (1946)

“Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.”

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"1896", p. 17
A Writer's Notebook (1946)

“I am a little shy of any assumption of moral indignation. There is always in it an element of self-satisfaction which makes it awkward to anyone who has a sense of humour.”

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W. Somerset Maugham könyv The Moon and Sixpence

Forrás: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 32, p. 116

“I have not been afraid of excess: excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.”

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W. Somerset Maugham könyv The Summing Up

Forrás: The Summing Up (1938), p. 48

“Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.”

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W. Somerset Maugham könyv Of Human Bondage

Forrás: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 53

“There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood…Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.”

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W. Somerset Maugham könyv Of Human Bondage

Forrás: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 51

“You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.”

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W. Somerset Maugham könyv Of Human Bondage

Forrás: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 23

“If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.”

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Strictly Personal, ch. 31 (1941)

“He had a bitter pain in his heart, for he knew that she was still a stranger to him and his hungry love was destined ever to remain unsatisfied.”

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"The pool", p. 127
Short Stories, Collected short stories 1

“The trouble with our younger authors is that they are all in the sixties.”

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As quoted in "Sayings of the Week" in The Observer (14 October 1951)

“It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.”

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Forrás: Cakes and Ale: Or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard (1930), p. 14

“There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.”

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W. Somerset Maugham könyv Of Human Bondage

Forrás: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 54

“It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real they are bruised and wounded.”

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W. Somerset Maugham könyv Of Human Bondage

Forrás: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 29

“My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.”

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Quoted in Somerset Maugham (1980) by Ted Morgan

“She gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer.
"You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You're all the same, all of you. Pigs! Pigs!"”

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"Sadie Thompson" in Altogether - Rain (1934)