William Somerset Maugham: Citáty anglicky

William Somerset Maugham byl britský dramatik, romanopisec, povídkář. Citáty anglicky.
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“Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.”

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W. Somerset Maugham kniha The Summing Up

Zdroj: The Summing Up (1938), p. 310

“There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.”

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W. Somerset Maugham kniha The Summing Up

Zdroj: The Summing Up (1938), p. 285

“A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her,” he said, “but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.”

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W. Somerset Maugham kniha The Moon and Sixpence

Zdroj: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 41, p. 142

“Tahiti is very far away, and I knew that I should never see it again. A chapter of my life was closed, and I felt a little nearer to inevitable death.”

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W. Somerset Maugham kniha The Moon and Sixpence

Zdroj: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 58, p. 213

“Art… is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.”

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W. Somerset Maugham kniha Of Human Bondage

Zdroj: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 42

“A god that can be understood is not a god.”

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W. Somerset Maugham kniha The Razor's Edge

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.”

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Zdroj: 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.

“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.”

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W. Somerset Maugham kniha The Razor's Edge

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.”

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"1901", p. 67
A Writer's Notebook (1946)

“It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank, and independent.”

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W. Somerset Maugham kniha Of Human Bondage

Zdroj: 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.

“Don't you know? Because American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.”

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W. Somerset Maugham kniha The Razor's Edge

The Razor's Edge (1943)

“We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.”

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W. Somerset Maugham kniha The Summing Up

Zdroj: The Summing Up (1938), p. 306

“I sometimes think,' said the Eternal, 'that the stars never shine more brightly than when reflected in the muddy waters of a wayside ditch.”

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"The judgement seat", p. 316
Short Stories, Collected short stories 1

“Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.”

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'"The Treasure"
Short Stories

“Women are always glad to listen when you discourse upon love…”

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W. Somerset Maugham kniha The Razor's Edge

p, 125
The Razor's Edge (1943)

“He made one laugh sometimes by speaking the truth, but this is a form of humour which gains its force only by its unusualness; it would cease to amuse if it were commonly practised.”

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W. Somerset Maugham kniha The Moon and Sixpence

Zdroj: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 44, p. 157

“The modern clergyman has acquired in his study of the science which I believe is called exegesis an astonishing facility for explaining things away.”

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W. Somerset Maugham kniha The Moon and Sixpence

Zdroj: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 1, p. 8

“But when all was said the important thing was to love rather than to be loved.”

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W. Somerset Maugham kniha Of Human Bondage

Zdroj: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 70

“… habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.”

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W. Somerset Maugham kniha The Summing Up

Zdroj: The Summing Up (1938), p. 182