William Somerset Maugham: Frasi in inglese (pagina 2)

William Somerset Maugham era scrittore e commediografo britannico. Frasi in inglese.
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“Life isn't long enough for love and art.”

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W. Somerset Maugham libro The Moon and Sixpence

Origine: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 21, p. 80

“We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us.”

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W. Somerset Maugham libro The Moon and Sixpence

Origine: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 38, p. 129

“Now it is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it…”

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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.”

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W. Somerset Maugham libro The Summing Up

Origine: The Summing Up (1938), p. 290

“I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world.”

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W. Somerset Maugham libro Schiavo d'amore

Origine: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 45

“People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.”

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W. Somerset Maugham libro Schiavo d'amore

Origine: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 50

“…you know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.”

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Origine: Cakes and Ale: Or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard (1930), p. 137

“You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.”

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W. Somerset Maugham The Circle

The Circle
Plays

“Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.”

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W. Somerset Maugham libro The Moon and Sixpence

Origine: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 42, p. 147

“There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain.”

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W. Somerset Maugham libro The Summing Up

Origine: 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

“He was the kind of man with whom one would have hesitated to pass a lonely evening, but with whom one might cheerfully have looked forward to spending six months.”

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W. Somerset Maugham libro Il filo del rasoio

The Razor's Edge (1943)

“Religion is…a conspiracy of…priests to gain control over the people…”

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W. Somerset Maugham libro Il filo del rasoio

The Razor's Edge (1943)

“Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.”

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"1896", p. 20
A Writer's Notebook (1946)

“You know that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.”

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The Bread-Winner (1930)
Plays

“The Riviera isn't only a sunny place for shady people.”

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Strictly Personal, p. 156 (Doubleday, Doran and co., inc., 1941)

“In art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.”

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W. Somerset Maugham libro Il filo del rasoio

p, 125
The Razor's Edge (1943)

“The poignancy which all beauty has.”

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W. Somerset Maugham libro The Moon and Sixpence

Origine: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 23, p. 87

“There 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.”

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W. Somerset Maugham libro 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
The Summing Up (1938)

“Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.”

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W. Somerset Maugham libro Il filo del rasoio

The Razor's Edge (1943)