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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), p. 185
“…we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.”
W. Somerset Maugham buch The Summing Up
Quelle: The Summing Up (1938), p. 64
W. Somerset Maugham buch The Moon and Sixpence
Quelle: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 14, p. 54
“The sad Don Quixote of a worthless purpose.”
W. Somerset Maugham buch The Razor's Edge
p, 125
The Razor's Edge (1943)
W. Somerset Maugham buch The Moon and Sixpence
Quelle: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 43, p. 154
“It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.”
Quelle: Cakes and Ale: Or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard (1930), p. 157
"The promise", p. 407
Short Stories, Collected short stories 1
“Passion doesn't count the cost. … Passion is destructive.”
W. Somerset Maugham buch The Razor's Edge
p, 125
The Razor's Edge (1943)
"The pool", p. 123
Short Stories, Collected short stories 1
“I was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.”
"Death" in Sheppey, Act III (1933)
Plays
W. Somerset Maugham buch The Moon and Sixpence
Quelle: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 2, p. 11
W. Somerset Maugham buch The Summing Up
Quelle: The Summing Up (1938), p. 182
Vladimir Mayakovsky, The Cloud in Trousers
Misattributed
W. Somerset Maugham buch The Summing Up
Quelle: The Summing Up (1938), p. 1
W. Somerset Maugham buch The Summing Up
Quelle: The Summing Up (1938), p. 71
“The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.”
Moses Mendelssohn, Briefe über die Empfindungen (1755)
Misattributed
“It was not till quite late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say: "I don't know."”
Quelle: A Writer's Notebook (1946), p. 258
Thomas Babington Macaulay, On John Dryden (1828)
Misattributed
Newsweek, 23 May, 1960
“Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.”
W. Somerset Maugham buch The Summing Up
Quelle: The Summing Up (1938), p. 223
“Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.”
Quoted in Somerset Maugham (1980) by Ted Morgan
W. Somerset Maugham buch Der Menschen Hörigkeit
Quelle: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 106
“The crown of literature is poetry.”
Matthew Arnold, Count Leo Tolstoi
Misattributed
“The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.”
Quelle: A Writer's Notebook (1946), p. 13
W. Somerset Maugham buch The Summing Up
section 66
The Summing Up (1938)
“…the future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.”
W. Somerset Maugham buch The Summing Up
Quelle: The Summing Up (1938), p. 51
W. Somerset Maugham buch The Moon and Sixpence
Quelle: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 6, p. 22
