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Der Menschen Hörigkeit
William Somerset Maugham
Der bunte Schleier
William Somerset MaughamWilliam Somerset Maugham Berühmte Zitate
Original: (en) Most people, as far as I can see, when they're in love with someone and the love isn't returned feel that they have a grievance. They grow angry and bitter.
Quelle: Der bunte Schleier. (Orig.: The painted veil.) Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Anna Keller. Berlin: Verlag Volk und Welt. 1. Auflage, 1978. S. 68
Quelle: The Painted Veil. Chap. XXIII gutenberg.ca https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/maughamws-paintedveil/maughamws-paintedveil-00-h.html
„Die Leute bitten um Kritik, aber sie wollen nur gelobt werden.“
(en) People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.
Quelle: Der Menschen Hörigkeit, 1917
Quelle: Of Human Bondage. Chap. L gutenberg.org https://www.gutenberg.org/files/351/351-h/351-h.htm
„Der kluge Mann reist nur in Gedanken.“
Original: (en) The wise man travels only in imagination.
Quelle: Honolulu. In: Betörende Südsee. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Ilse Krämer. Frankfurt/M - Berlin - Wien: Ullstein Verlag. 1985. S. 142
Quelle: Honolulu. In: The Trembling of a Leaf – Little Stories of the South Sea Islands. Cap. III gutenberg.org https://www.gutenberg.org/files/26854/26854-h/26854-h.htm
William Somerset Maugham: Zitate auf Englisch
“Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.”
Quelle: The Summing Up (1938), p. 310
“A god that can be understood is not a god.”
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.”
Quelle: Cakes and Ale: Or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard (1930), p. 140.<!-- Doubleday Doran & Co. -->
Kontext: 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.
The Razor's Edge (1943)
Kontext: 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)
Quelle: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 51
Kontext: 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.
"The judgement seat", p. 316
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“Women are always glad to listen when you discourse upon love…”
p, 125
The Razor's Edge (1943)
“But when all was said the important thing was to love rather than to be loved.”
Quelle: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 70
“Life isn't long enough for love and art.”
Quelle: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 21, p. 80
“We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us.”
Quelle: 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.”
Quelle: The Summing Up (1938), p. 290
“People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.”
Quelle: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 50
Quelle: Cakes and Ale: Or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard (1930), p. 137
