Frases de William Somerset Maugham página 2

“La mayoría de las personas abandonan sus vicios sólo cuando les causan molestias.”

“Acuérdate de esto: cumplir el deber no tiene más mérito que lavarse la cara. No basta cumplirlo, pues el deber se impone. La única cosa que vale es amarlo.”

“Cada hombre tiene secretos que él mismo ignora.”

“Cuando sólo se piensa en el pasado, es que no se tiene futuro”

Fuente: [Ortega Blake], Arturo. El gran libro de las frases celebres. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial México, 2013. https://books.google.es/books?id=QJIAVIKP1dgC&pg=PT1813&dq=Cada+hombre+tiene+secretos+que+%C3%A9l+mismo+ignora.&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi-64zOiKHiAhUGhxoKHdpLD5IQ6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=Cada%20hombre%20tiene%20secretos%20que%20%C3%A9l%20mismo%20ignora.&f=false En Google Books. Consultado el 17 de mayo de 2019.

“El dinero es como un sexto sentido; sin él no podríamos usar completamente los otros cinco.”

Fuente: [Señor] (1997), p. 512.

“El dolor une, a veces, pero no enseña a vivir.”

Fuente: [Señor] (1997), p. 149.

“En ocasiones el exceso es estimulante. Evita que con la moderación se adquiera el mortal efecto de un hábito.”

“La gente no busca razones para hacer lo que quiere hacer, busca excusas.”

“La sensación de la distancia depende menos del espacio que del tiempo.”

Fuente: [Palomo Triguero], Eduardo. Cita-logía, pp. 136 & 243. Punto Rojo Libros, 2013. https://books.google.es/books?id=He9BAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA238&dq=erasmo+%22Mejor+es+prevenir+que+curar%22&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj2y8v2kO7hAhUhyoUKHdvPD-UQ6AEINDAC#v=onepage&q=Maugham&f=false En Google Books. Consultado el 16 de mayo de 2019.

“La vida es demasiado corta para hacer tú mismo lo que puedes mandar hacer a otros, pagándoles.”

“Los proverbios y las máximas son el último refugio de los desamparados.”

“Los tres deberes fundamentales de la mujer son ser bonita, ir bien vestida y no contradecir.”

“Ningún dolor nos parece justo y las injusticias siempre disponen mal.”

“Para comer bien en Inglaterra es recomendable desayunar tres veces.”

“Para rezar a Dios con devoción no hace falta creer en Dios según los dogmas de ninguna religión.”

“Si la gente sólo hablara cuando tuviera algo que decir, el ser humano perdería muy pronto el uso del lenguaje.”

“Si no quieres que te mientan, no preguntes.”

“Si otro nos critica y no nos ofendemos, el criticón se desorienta.”

“Solo avanzada ya mi vida me di cuenta de cuán fácil es decir: no lo sé.”

“Sólo una persona mediocre está siempre en su mejor momento.”

“Un filósofo es un tipo que sube a una cumbre en busca del Sol; encuentra niebla, desciende y explica el magnífico espectáculo que ha visto.”

“Para qué fatigarse buscando soluciones, cuando la certeza de encontrarlas es ya un placer delicioso.”

“There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain.”

William Somerset Maugham: Frases en inglés

“He was the kind of man with whom one would have hesitated to pass a lonely evening, but with whom one might cheerfully have looked forward to spending six months.”

W. Somerset Maugham libro The Summing Up

Fuente: 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 The Razor's Edge

The Razor's Edge (1943)

“Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.”

W. Somerset Maugham libro The Razor's Edge

The Razor's Edge (1943)

“You know that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.”

"1896", p. 20
A Writer's Notebook (1946)

“The Riviera isn't only a sunny place for shady people.”

The Bread-Winner (1930)
Plays

“In art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.”

Strictly Personal, p. 156 (Doubleday, Doran and co., inc., 1941)

“The poignancy which all beauty has.”

W. Somerset Maugham libro The Razor's Edge

p, 125
The Razor's Edge (1943)

“There 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.”

W. Somerset Maugham libro The Moon and Sixpence

Fuente: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 23, p. 87

“Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.”

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)

“In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.”

W. Somerset Maugham libro The Razor's Edge

The Razor's Edge (1943)

“I have always been convinced that if a woman once made up her mind to marry a man nothing but instant flight could save him.”

Fuente: A Writer's Notebook (1946), p. 48

“Things don't get any easier by putting them off.”

"The escape", p. 309
Short Stories, Collected short stories 1

“What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.”

W. Somerset Maugham libro The Razor's Edge

The Razor's Edge (1943)

“I held my breath, for to me there is nothing more awe-inspiring than when a man discovers to you the nakedness of his soul.”

Points of View (1959) Ch. 1

“Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.”

"The pool", p. 140
Short Stories, Collected short stories 1

“It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.”

W. Somerset Maugham libro Of Human Bondage

Fuente: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 66

“I had not yet learnt how contradictory is human nature; I did not know how much pose there is in the sincere, how much baseness in the noble, or how much goodness in the reprobate.”

W. Somerset Maugham libro The Moon and Sixpence

Fuente: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 17, p. 64

“We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.”

W. Somerset Maugham libro The Moon and Sixpence

Fuente: 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.”

W. Somerset Maugham The Constant Wife

The Constant Wife (1927)
Plays

“I thought I should be a fool to allow work to interfere with a delight in the passing moment that I might never enjoy again so fully.”

The Trembling of a Leaf (1921), ch. 3

“It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise…”

W. Somerset Maugham libro The Razor's Edge

The Razor's Edge (1943)

“There are men whose sense of humour is so ill developed that they still bear a grudge against Copernicus because he dethroned them from the central position in the universe. They feel it a personal affront that they can no longer consider themselves the pivot upon which turns the whole of created things.”

W. Somerset Maugham libro The Summing Up

Fuente: The Summing Up (1938), p. 223

“She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit…”

"1901", p. 66
A Writer's Notebook (1946)

“Impropriety is the soul of 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

“When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.”

W. Somerset Maugham libro The Moon and Sixpence

Fuente: 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.”

W. Somerset Maugham The Circle

The Circle
Plays

“At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.”

Fuente: 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"

“He knew that women appreciated neither irony nor sarcasm, but simple jokes and funny stories. He was amply provided with both.”

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A Writer's Notebook (1946)

“I did not then know the besetting sin of woman, the passion to discuss her private affairs with anyone who is willing to listen.”

W. Somerset Maugham libro Then and Now

Then and Now : A Novel (1946), p. 136