William Somerset Maugham Berühmte Zitate
William Somerset Maugham buch Der bunte Schleier
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. <br class="br">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 <br class="br">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.“
William Somerset Maugham buch Der Menschen Hörigkeit
(en) People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise. <br class="br">Quelle: Der Menschen Hörigkeit, 1917 <br class="br">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. <br class="br">Quelle: Honolulu. In: Betörende Südsee. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Ilse Krämer. Frankfurt/M - Berlin - Wien: Ullstein Verlag. 1985. S. 142 <br class="br">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
W. Somerset Maugham buch The Summing Up
Quelle: 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…”
W. Somerset Maugham buch The Razor's Edge
The Razor's Edge (1943)
"1896", p. 20
A Writer's Notebook (1946)
“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.”
W. Somerset Maugham buch The Razor's Edge
p, 125
The Razor's Edge (1943)
“The poignancy which all beauty has.”
W. Somerset Maugham buch The Moon and Sixpence
Quelle: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 23, p. 87
W. Somerset Maugham buch The Summing Up
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 <br class="br">The Summing Up (1938)
“Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.”
W. Somerset Maugham buch The Razor's Edge
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.”
W. Somerset Maugham buch The Razor's Edge
The Razor's Edge (1943)
"The pool", p. 140
Short Stories, Collected short stories 1
W. Somerset Maugham buch Der Menschen Hörigkeit
Quelle: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 66
W. Somerset Maugham buch The Moon and Sixpence
Quelle: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 17, p. 64
W. Somerset Maugham buch The Moon and Sixpence
Quelle: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 11, p. 39
W. Somerset Maugham The Constant Wife
The Constant Wife (1927)
Plays
“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…”
W. Somerset Maugham buch The Summing Up
Quelle: 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.”
W. Somerset Maugham buch The Moon and Sixpence
Quelle: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 4, p. 17
“There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.”
Quelle: 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)
W. Somerset Maugham buch Then and Now
Then and Now : A Novel (1946), p. 136
W. Somerset Maugham buch The Moon and Sixpence
Quelle: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 8, p. 31
