“Life isn't long enough for love and art.”
W. Somerset Maugham kniha The Moon and Sixpence
Zdroj: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 21, p. 80
William Somerset Maugham: Citáty anglicky
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“We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us.”
W. Somerset Maugham kniha The Moon and Sixpence
Zdroj: 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.”
W. Somerset Maugham kniha The Summing Up
Zdroj: The Summing Up (1938), p. 290
W. Somerset Maugham kniha Of Human Bondage
Zdroj: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 45
“People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.”
W. Somerset Maugham kniha Of Human Bondage
Zdroj: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 50
Zdroj: Cakes and Ale: Or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard (1930), p. 137
W. Somerset Maugham kniha The Moon and Sixpence
Zdroj: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 42, p. 147
W. Somerset Maugham kniha The Summing Up
Zdroj: 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 kniha 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 kniha The Razor's Edge
p, 125
The Razor's Edge (1943)
“The poignancy which all beauty has.”
W. Somerset Maugham kniha The Moon and Sixpence
Zdroj: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 23, p. 87
W. Somerset Maugham kniha 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 kniha The Razor's Edge
The Razor's Edge (1943)