Сомерсет Моэм: Цитаты на английском языке
Сомерсет Моэм было английский писатель, агент английской разведки. Цитаты на английском языке."The escape", p. 309
Short Stories, Collected short stories 1
“Things don't get any easier by putting them off.”
W. Somerset Maugham книга The Razor's Edge
The Razor's Edge (1943)
"The pool", p. 140
Short Stories, Collected short stories 1
W. Somerset Maugham книга Of Human Bondage
Источник: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 66
W. Somerset Maugham книга The Moon and Sixpence
Источник: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 17, p. 64
W. Somerset Maugham книга The Moon and Sixpence
Источник: 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
W. Somerset Maugham книга The Razor's Edge
The Razor's Edge (1943)
“It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise…”
W. Somerset Maugham книга The Summing Up
Источник: 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 книга The Moon and Sixpence
Источник: 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.”
Источник: 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.”
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A Writer's Notebook (1946)
W. Somerset Maugham книга Then and Now
Then and Now : A Novel (1946), p. 136
W. Somerset Maugham книга The Moon and Sixpence
Источник: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 8, p. 31