“Life isn't long enough for love and art.”
W. Somerset Maugham libro The Moon and Sixpence
Origine: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 21, p. 80
William Somerset Maugham: Frasi in inglese
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“We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us.”
W. Somerset Maugham libro The Moon and Sixpence
Origine: 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 libro The Summing Up
Origine: The Summing Up (1938), p. 290
W. Somerset Maugham libro Schiavo d'amore
Origine: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 45
“People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.”
W. Somerset Maugham libro Schiavo d'amore
Origine: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 50
Origine: Cakes and Ale: Or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard (1930), p. 137
W. Somerset Maugham libro The Moon and Sixpence
Origine: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 42, p. 147
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
“Religion is…a conspiracy of…priests to gain control over the people…”
W. Somerset Maugham libro Il filo del rasoio
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 libro Il filo del rasoio
p, 125
The Razor's Edge (1943)
“The poignancy which all beauty has.”
W. Somerset Maugham libro The Moon and Sixpence
Origine: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 23, p. 87
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 <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 libro Il filo del rasoio
The Razor's Edge (1943)