Zitate von William Somerset Maugham

Informationen über William Somerset Maugham

Arzt, Schriftsteller, Dramatiker, "Der Menschen Hörigkeit", "Die Villa", "Menschen in der Südsee", "Damals und Heute", "Die halbe Wahrheit", "Der Magier" (England, 1874 - 1965).

William Somerset Maugham · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

William Somerset Maugham wäre heute 151 Jahre, 2 Monate, 7 Tage oder 55.218 Tage alt.

Geboren am 25.01.1874 in London
Gestorben am 16.12.1965 in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat/Nizza
Sternzeichen: ♒ Wassermann

• The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up them bad ones.

  ---

• The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty, but goodness.

  ---

• The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willingly avoids the sight of distress.

  ---

• There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

  ---

• There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

  ---

• 

  ---

• 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.

  ---

• There is nothing but art. Art is living. To attempt to give an object of art life by dwelling on its historical, cultural, or archaeological association is senseless.

  ---

• To do each day two things one dislikes is a precept I have followed scrupulously: Every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.

  ---

• To write simply is as difficult as to be good.

  ---

• We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love.

  ---

• 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.

  ---

• What mean and cruel things men do for the love of God.

  ---

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

  ---

• You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

  ---

• You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.

  ---

• Le bonheur n'est jamais exactement ce qu'on s'est imaginé.

  ---

• Les gens te demandent ta critique, mais ils ne veulent que tes louanges.

  ---

• On devrait rester là où on se sent heureux. Le bonheur est un meuble très fragile au transport.

  ---

• Un peu de bon sens, de tolérance, d'humour et on pourrait vivre à l'aise.

  ---