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
"The judgement seat", p. 314
Short Stories, Collected short stories 1
“Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.”
Źródło: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 39
"1941", p. 336
A Writer's Notebook (1946)
“A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.”
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"1896", p. 28
A Writer's Notebook (1946)
“Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.”
Źródło: The Summing Up (1938), p. 290
“The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.”
Źródło: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 41, p. 140
“Money is like a sixth sense - and you can't make use of the other five without it.”
NY Times Magazine (October 18, 1958)
“There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.”
Źródło: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 71
“To eat well in England, you should have a breakfast three times a day.”
Quoted in Somerset Maugham (1980) by Ted Morgan
“Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way.”
"1941"
A Writer's Notebook (1946)
“I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.”
Źródło: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 21, p. 79
Arnold, in The Circle: A Comedy in Three Acts (1921), p. 58-59
Plays
“…when you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right…”
Źródło: Cakes and Ale: Or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard (1930), p. 166
“It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.”
Ten Novels and Their Authors (1954)
“Passion is destructive; if it does not destroy, it dies.”
The Razor's Edge (1943)
“Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.”
Źródło: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 45
Źródło: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 33, p. 119
Leo Tolstoy and War and Peace
Great Novelists and Their Novels
"The lion's skin", p. 283
Short Stories, Collected short stories 1