William Somerset Maugham: Frasi in inglese (pagina 8)

William Somerset Maugham era scrittore e commediografo britannico. Frasi in inglese.
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“There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood…Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.”

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W. Somerset Maugham libro Schiavo d'amore

Origine: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 51

“You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.”

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Origine: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 23

“If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.”

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Strictly Personal, ch. 31 (1941)

“He had a bitter pain in his heart, for he knew that she was still a stranger to him and his hungry love was destined ever to remain unsatisfied.”

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"The pool", p. 127
Short Stories, Collected short stories 1

“The trouble with our younger authors is that they are all in the sixties.”

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As quoted in "Sayings of the Week" in The Observer (14 October 1951)

“It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.”

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Origine: Cakes and Ale: Or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard (1930), p. 14

“There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.”

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Origine: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 54

“It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real they are bruised and wounded.”

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Origine: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 29

“My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.”

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Quoted in Somerset Maugham (1980) by Ted Morgan

“She gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer.
"You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You're all the same, all of you. Pigs! Pigs!"”

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"Sadie Thompson" in Altogether - Rain (1934)

“I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.”

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Origine: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 52

“Now the world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.”

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Great Novelists and Their Novels (1948)

“He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.”

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Origine: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 116

“Whatever anguish she suffered she concealed. She saw shrewdly that the world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willingly avoids the sight of distress.”

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W. Somerset Maugham libro The Moon and Sixpence

Origine: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 16, p. 61

“Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.”

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W. Somerset Maugham libro The Summing Up

Origine: The Summing Up (1938), p. 164

“When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.”

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Origine: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 67

“He had doubts about the utility of examination on subjects which had been crammed for the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teaching_to_the_test occasion]. He wanted common sense.”

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Origine: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 10

“Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history.”

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W. Somerset Maugham libro The Moon and Sixpence

Origine: http://glimmertrain.com/documents/pdfs/MaughamQuote.pdf
Origine: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 50, p. 1??