William Somerset Maugham cytaty

William Somerset Maugham [ˈmɔːm] – angielski powieściopisarz i dramaturg.

✵ 25. Styczeń 1874 – 16. Grudzień 1965   •   Natępne imiona Уильям Сомерсет Моэм
William Somerset Maugham Fotografia

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The Summing Up
William Somerset Maugham
The Circle
William Somerset Maugham
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William Somerset Maugham Cytaty o kobietach

William Somerset Maugham cytaty

„Tragedią życia jest nie to, że ludzie umierają, lecz to, że przestają kochać.”

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love. (ang.)
Źródło: The Summing Up

„Jeżeli w życiu zgadzasz się przyjmować tylko to, co najlepsze, bardzo często to otrzymujesz.”

Źródło: Gordon Dryden, Jeanette Vos, Rewolucja w uczeniu, wyd. Moderski i S-ka, Poznań 2000, tłum. Bożena Jóźwiak, s. 270.

„Życie kręci się w kółko.”

The Circle (ang.)
Źródło: tytuł sztuki.

„Tylko ludzie mali zawsze utrzymują się na swoim poziomie.”

Źródło: Wielka księga mądrości, wybór Jacek i Tomasz Ilga

William Somerset Maugham: Cytaty po angielsku

“Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.”

W. Somerset Maugham książka The Summing Up

Źródło: The Summing Up (1938), p. 310

“A god that can be understood is not a god.”

W. Somerset Maugham książka The Razor's Edge

The Razor's Edge (1943), p. 283

“Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it.”

Źródło: Cakes and Ale: Or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard (1930), p. 140.<!-- Doubleday Doran & Co. -->
Kontekst: Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

“Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.”

W. Somerset Maugham książka The Razor's Edge

The Razor's Edge (1943)
Kontekst: Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

“What mean and cruel things men can do for the love of God.”

"1901", p. 67
A Writer's Notebook (1946)

“It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank, and independent.”

W. Somerset Maugham książka Of Human Bondage

Źródło: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 51
Kontekst: You will hear people say that poverty is the best spur to the artist. They have never felt the iron of it in their flesh. They do not know how mean it makes you. It exposes you to endless humiliation, it cuts your wings, it eats into your soul like a cancer. It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank, and independent.

“Women are always glad to listen when you discourse upon love…”

W. Somerset Maugham książka The Razor's Edge

p, 125
The Razor's Edge (1943)

“But when all was said the important thing was to love rather than to be loved.”

W. Somerset Maugham książka Of Human Bondage

Źródło: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 70

“Life isn't long enough for love and art.”

W. Somerset Maugham książka The Moon and Sixpence

Źródło: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 21, p. 80

“We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us.”

W. Somerset Maugham książka The Moon and Sixpence

Źródło: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 38, p. 129

“Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.”

W. Somerset Maugham książka The Summing Up

Źródło: The Summing Up (1938), p. 290

“I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world.”

W. Somerset Maugham książka Of Human Bondage

Źródło: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 45

“People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.”

W. Somerset Maugham książka Of Human Bondage

Źródło: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 50

“Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.”

W. Somerset Maugham książka The Moon and Sixpence

Źródło: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 42, p. 147

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