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The Summing Up
William Somerset MaughamThe Circle
William Somerset MaughamThe Summing Up
William Somerset MaughamThe Circle
William Somerset MaughamWilliam Somerset Maugham słynne cytaty
odpowiedź 80-latka na pytanie: „Jak układa się pańskie współżycie z krytykami?”.
William Somerset Maugham Cytaty o kobietach
William Somerset Maugham cytaty
„Tragedią życia jest nie to, że ludzie umierają, lecz to, że przestają kochać.”
William Somerset Maugham książka The Summing Up
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.
William Somerset Maugham The Circle
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
W. Somerset Maugham książka The Summing Up
Źródło: The Summing Up (1938), p. 285
W. Somerset Maugham książka The Moon and Sixpence
Źródło: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 41, p. 142
W. Somerset Maugham książka The Moon and Sixpence
Źródło: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 58, p. 213
“The tragedy of love is indifference.”
The Trembling of a Leaf, ch. 4
W. Somerset Maugham książka Of Human Bondage
Źródło: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 42
“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.
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)
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.
W. Somerset Maugham książka The Razor's Edge
The Razor's Edge (1943)
W. Somerset Maugham książka The Summing Up
Źródło: The Summing Up (1938), p. 306
"The judgement seat", p. 316
Short Stories, Collected short stories 1
“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)
W. Somerset Maugham książka The Moon and Sixpence
Źródło: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 44, p. 157
W. Somerset Maugham książka The Moon and Sixpence
Źródło: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 1, p. 8
“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
W. Somerset Maugham książka The Summing Up
Źródło: The Summing Up (1938), p. 182
“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
The Mixture As Before (1940) "The Treasure"
Short Stories
“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
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
Źródło: Cakes and Ale: Or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard (1930), p. 137
W. Somerset Maugham książka The Moon and Sixpence
Źródło: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 42, p. 147
