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“A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.” (The Razor’s Edge Quotes)
William Somerset Maugham
The Razor’s Edge
“Almost all the people who’ve had the most effect on me I seem to have met by chance, yet looking back it seems as though I couldn’t but have met them.”
William Somerset Maugham
The Razor’s Edge
“American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.”
William Somerset Maugham
The Razor’s Edge
“I could see that Isabel listened to him with growing exasperation. Larry had no notion that he was driving a dagger in her heart and with his every detached word twisting it in the wound. But when she spoke it was with a faint smile on her lips.”
William Somerset Maugham
The Razor’s Edge
“I did not hesitate to put the question that came to the tip of my tongue. After all, if you want to know something the best way is to ask.”
William Somerset Maugham
The Razor’s Edge
“I happen to think we’ve set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.”
William Somerset Maugham
The Razor’s Edge
“I only wanted to suggest to you that self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are trifling.”
William Somerset Maugham
The Razor’s Edge
“I thought with melancholy how an author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart’s blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.” (The Razor’s Edge Quotes)
William Somerset Maugham
The Razor’s Edge
“In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.”
William Somerset Maugham
The Razor’s Edge
“It was not for me to leave the world and retire to a cloister, but to live in the world and love the objects of the world, not indeed for themselves, but for the Infinite that is in them.”
William Somerset Maugham
The Razor’s Edge
“Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.”
William Somerset Maugham
The Razor’s Edge
“The dead look so terribly dead when they’re dead.”
William Somerset Maugham
The Razor’s Edge
“The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.”
William Somerset Maugham
The Razor’s Edge
“Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.”
William Somerset Maugham
The Razor’s Edge
“What he taught was very simple. He taught that we are all greater than we know and that wisdom is the means to freedom.”
William Somerset Maugham
The Razor’s Edge
“When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself? At best he can only sacrifice his only begotten son.”
William Somerset Maugham
The Razor’s Edge
“You’re beginning to dislike me, aren’t you? Well, dislike me. It doesn’t make any difference to me now.”
William Somerset Maugham
The Razor’s Edge
