William 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
"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.”
Quelle: 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.”
Red http://books.google.com/books?id=6ZZgZw5yX8QC&q="a+soul+is+a+troublesome+possession+and+when+man+developed+it+he+lost+the+Garden+of+Eden"&pg=PA413#v=onepage (1921)
"1896", p. 28
A Writer's Notebook (1946)
“Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.”
Quelle: The Summing Up (1938), p. 290
“The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.”
Quelle: 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.”
Quelle: 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.”
Quelle: 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…”
Quelle: 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.”
Quelle: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 45
Leo Tolstoy and War and Peace
Great Novelists and Their Novels
"The lion's skin", p. 283
Short Stories, Collected short stories 1
