Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish n — W. 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 n — W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge
The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead. — W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge
The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead. — W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge
I used to listen to the monks repeating the Lord's Prayer; I wondered how they could continue to pray without misgiving — W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge
I used to listen to the monks repeating the Lord's Prayer; I wondered how they could continue to pray without misgiving — W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge
Passion is destructive. It destroyed Antony and Cleopatra, Tristan and Isolde, Parnell and Kitty O'Shea. And if it doesn — W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge
Passion is destructive. It destroyed Antony and Cleopatra, Tristan and Isolde, Parnell and Kitty O'Shea. And if it doesn — W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge
The man I am writing about is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to — W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge
The man I am writing about is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to — W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge
The man I am writing about is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to — W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge
The man I am writing about is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to — W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge
Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers. — W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge
Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers. — W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge
Larry has been absorbed, as he wished, into that tumultuous conglomeration of humanity, distracted by so many conflictin — W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge
Larry has been absorbed, as he wished, into that tumultuous conglomeration of humanity, distracted by so many conflictin — W. 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 him — W. 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 him — W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge
But that wasn't the chief thing that bothered me: I couldn't reconcile myself with that preoccupation with sin that, so — W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge
But that wasn't the chief thing that bothered me: I couldn't reconcile myself with that preoccupation with sin that, so — W. 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 — W. 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 — W. 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 — W. 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 — W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge
A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life. — W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge
A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life. — W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge
Larry sat with his arm stretched out along the top of the front seat. His shirt cuff was pulled back by his position and — W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge
Larry sat with his arm stretched out along the top of the front seat. His shirt cuff was pulled back by his position and — W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge