William Somerset Maugham citations (158 citations, Page 6)

William Somerset Maugham: 158 citations0 J'aime

William Somerset Maugham: Citations en anglais

“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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W. Somerset Maugham livre Of Human Bondage

Source: 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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W. Somerset Maugham

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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W. Somerset Maugham livre Of Human Bondage

Source: 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 livre The Moon and Sixpence

Source: 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 livre The Summing Up

Source: 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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W. Somerset Maugham livre Of Human Bondage

Source: 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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W. Somerset Maugham livre Of Human Bondage

Source: 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 livre The Moon and Sixpence

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

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