William Somerset Maugham [ˈsʌməsɪt mɔːm], est un romancier, nouvelliste et dramaturge britannique.
W. Somerset Maugham livre The Summing Up
Source: 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 livre The Razor's Edge
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 livre The Razor's Edge
p, 125
The Razor's Edge (1943)
“The poignancy which all beauty has.”
W. Somerset Maugham livre The Moon and Sixpence
Source: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 23, p. 87
W. Somerset Maugham livre 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 livre The Razor's Edge
The Razor's Edge (1943)
"The escape", p. 309
Short Stories, Collected short stories 1
“Things don't get any easier by putting them off.”
W. Somerset Maugham livre The Razor's Edge
The Razor's Edge (1943)
"The pool", p. 140
Short Stories, Collected short stories 1
W. Somerset Maugham livre Of Human Bondage
Source: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 66
W. Somerset Maugham livre The Moon and Sixpence
Source: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 17, p. 64
W. Somerset Maugham livre The Moon and Sixpence
Source: 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 livre 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 livre The Summing Up
Source: 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 livre The Moon and Sixpence
Source: 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.”
Source: 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.”
Unidentified page
A Writer's Notebook (1946)
W. Somerset Maugham livre Then and Now
Then and Now : A Novel (1946), p. 136
W. Somerset Maugham livre The Moon and Sixpence
Source: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 8, p. 31
