The Razor's Edge Quotes
"The sharp edge of a razor is difficult to pass over; thus the wise say the path to Salvation is hard."
"I have never begun a novel with more misgiving."
"Death ends all things and so is the comprehensive conclusion of a story."
"Marriage finishes it very properly too and the sophisticated are ill-advised to sneer at what is by convention termed a happy ending."
"I only want to set down what I know of my own knowledge."
"It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water."
"I remarked a little while back that I have invented nothing; I want now to modify that statement."
"It is very difficult to know people and I don't think one can ever really know any but one's own countrymen."
"Nous autres américains, we Americans, like change. It is at once our weakness and our strength."
"His amiability was extreme; he never minded being asked at the last moment because someone had thrown you over."
"Elliott Templeton to be a friend. He took no interest in people apart from their social position."
"People in America are so inconsiderate in the way they give letters."
"If I have given the reader an impression that Elliott Templeton was a despicable character I have done him an injustice."
"He was hospitable. His chef was as good as any in Paris and you could be sure at his table of having set before you the earliest delicacies of the season."
"I don't think it matters one way or the other."
"The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead."
"I don't think I shall ever find peace till I make up my mind about things."
"It's hard not to ask yourself what life is all about and whether there's any sense to it or whether it's all a tragic blunder of blind fate."
"It's nice being adored; he's just as much in love with me now as when we first married."
"You know, it tickles me to death to think that we're living like quite rich people when really we're absolutely broke."
"I've had a lot of fun while it lasted and now it's gone, it's gone."
"After all, I was born and raised on a farm in Illinois."
"I see you haven't changed much in ten years."
"I don't suppose you'll believe me, being a cynical brute, but I'm not sure if I'd have accepted Uncle Elliott's offer except for Gray and the children."
"It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him."
"You can stand him a drink and then you better scram. He's a Corsican and as jealous as our old friend Jehovah."
"Life's hell anyway, but if there is any fun to be got out of it, you're only a god-damn fool if you don't get it."
"I've never thought of that. I'll pray to God for rain as I've never prayed before."
"I've done everything for them. They've eaten my food and drunk my wine."
"I am a minister's daughter, my dear sir," she replied. "I leave such foolishness to the upper classes."
"A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?"
"You want to taste sugar, you don't want to become sugar."
"It's as though they needed your faith to have faith in themselves."
"Advaita doesn't ask you to take anything on trust; it asks only that you should have a passionate craving to know Reality."
"The Absolute is in Isvara, the creator and ruler of the world, and it is in the humble fetish before which the peasant in his sun-baked field places the offering of a flower."
"It seemed to me like sending a fellow with a message to some place and just to make it harder for him you constructed a maze that he had to get through."
"It's easy enough to bear our own evils, all we need for that is a little manliness; what's intolerable is the evil, often so unmerited in appearance, that befalls others."
"I found something wonderfully satisfying in the notion that you can attain Reality by knowledge."
"The noblest way, though the hardest, is the way of knowledge, for its instrument is the most precious faculty of man, his reason."
"Marriage still remains the most satisfactory profession a woman can adopt."
"Life would be even harder for us poor women than it is if it were not for the unbelievable vanity of men."
"I'm going to be of a ferocious virtue, for my long experience has convinced me that the only basis of a happy marriage is complete fidelity on both sides."
"People can say what they like, but marriage still remains the most satisfactory profession a woman can adopt."
"Ultimate satisfaction can only be found in the life of the spirit."
"All the persons with whom I have been concerned got what they wanted."
"And however superciliously the highbrows carp, we the public in our heart of hearts all like a success story."