The Razor's Edge (1946)
Herbert Marshall: W. Somerset Maugham
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Quotes
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W. Somerset Maugham : You see, my dear; goodness is, after all, the greatest force in the world.
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Isabel Bradley : [Referring to Sophie MacDonald] She's an awful woman. She's bad, bad, bad! She's soused from morning to night.
W. Somerset Maugham : That doesn't necessarily mean she's bad. Quite a number of respectable citizens get drunk and do silly things... I call a person bad who lies and cheats and is unkind.
Isabel Bradley : If you're going to take her part, I'll kill you.
W. Somerset Maugham : I'd prefer it if you gave me a cup of tea.
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W. Somerset Maugham : Elliott has no friends, only acquaintances.
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W. Somerset Maugham : [about Elliott's monogrammed robe] Elliott, what the devil's that crown doing over your initials?
Elliott Templeton : His Holiness has been graciously pleased to revive, in my favor, my old family title.
W. Somerset Maugham : Your what?
Elliott Templeton : Oh, didn't you know? I'm descended, in the female line, from the Count de Lauria, who came over to England with Philip II to marry the maid of honor to Queen Mary. As an American citizen, I feel it more modest not to use my title except on all my personal linen.
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W. Somerset Maugham : You've always looked upon nature as an impediment to social intercourse.
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W. Somerset Maugham : I'm afraid you'll find the company mixed.
Elliott Templeton : Don't you believe it. There'll be none of this confounded democracy there
[in heaven]
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W. Somerset Maugham : Larry's in the grip of the most powerful emotion that can beset the breast of man--self-sacrifice.
