“Have you never thought of divorcing Gray?”
“I’ve got no reason for divorcing him.”
“That doesn’t prevent your countrywomen from divorcing their husbands when they have a mind to.”
She laughed.
"Why d'you suppose they do it?"
“Don’t you know? Because American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.”
-- Somerset Maugham, "The Razor's Edge"
Do you agree with Anthony Burgess that this is Maugham's greatest novel?
Posted by: Sidney Ghoti | May 20, 2023 at 10:42 AM