William Somerset Maugham: Frasi in inglese (pagina 3)
William Somerset Maugham era scrittore e commediografo britannico. Frasi in inglese.
"The escape", p. 309
Short Stories, Collected short stories 1
“Things don't get any easier by putting them off.”
The Razor's Edge (1943)
"The pool", p. 140
Short Stories, Collected short stories 1
Origine: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 17, p. 64
Origine: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 11, p. 39
“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
“It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise…”
Origine: 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.”
Origine: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 4, p. 17
“When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.”
The Circle
Plays
“There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.”
Origine: 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)