William Somerset Maugham słynne cytaty
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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.
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
Źródło: The Summing Up (1938), Ch. 5, p. 12 http://books.google.com/books?id=2hNbAAAAMAAJ&q=%22There+is+only+one+thing+about+which+I+am+certain+and+this+is%22&pg=PA12#v=onepage- 13 http://books.google.com/books?id=2hNbAAAAMAAJ&q=%22that+there+is+very+little+about+which+one+can+be+certain%22&pg=PA13#v=onepage
“Religion is…a conspiracy of…priests to gain control over the people…”
The Razor's Edge (1943)
"1896", p. 20
A Writer's Notebook (1946)
“You know that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.”
The Bread-Winner (1930)
Plays
“The Riviera isn't only a sunny place for shady people.”
Strictly Personal, p. 156 (Doubleday, Doran and co., inc., 1941)
“In art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.”
p, 125
The Razor's Edge (1943)
“The poignancy which all beauty has.”
Źródło: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 23, p. 87
Ch. 4, p. 11 http://books.google.com/books?id=Ma3RAAAAMAAJ&q=%22There+is+a+sort+of+man+who+pays+no+attention+to+his+good+actions+but+is+tormented+by+his+bad+ones+this+is+the+type+that+most+often+writes+about+himself%22&pg=PA11#v=onepage
The Summing Up (1938)
“Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.”
The Razor's Edge (1943)
"The escape", p. 309
Short Stories, Collected short stories 1
“Things don't get any easier by putting them off.”
The Razor's Edge (1943)
"The pool", p. 140
Short Stories, Collected short stories 1
Źródło: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 17, p. 64
Źródło: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 11, p. 39
“Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.”
The Trembling of a Leaf (1921), ch. 3
“It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise…”
Źródło: The Summing Up (1938), p. 223
"1901", p. 66
A Writer's Notebook (1946)
“She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit…”
[1926, August, The Creative Impulse, Harper's Bazar, 41, 0017-7873, Hearst Corp., New York]
Revised with quotation in the 1931 compilation Six Stories Written in the First Person Singular.
Often misattributed to George Bernard Shaw or Oscar Wilde
Short Stories
“Impropriety is the soul of wit.”
Źródło: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 4, p. 17
“When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.”
The Circle
Plays
“There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.”
Źródło: A Writer's Notebook (1946), p. 38. Maugham says something similar in The Summing up, Ch 22: "Love was only the dirty trick nature played on us to achieve the continuation of the species"
“At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.”
Unidentified page
A Writer's Notebook (1946)
Źródło: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 8, p. 31