W. Somerset Maugham Quotes About Sin

Quotes about: Sin

• Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If the evils we suffer are the result of sins committed in our past lives, we can bear them with resignation and hope that if in this one we strive toward virtue out future lives will be less afflicted.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Past, Evil, Suffering

• It must be a fault in me that I am not gravely shocked at the sins of others unless they personally affect me.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Faults, Sin, Shocked

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

• ...I couldn't but surmise that the devil, looking at the cruel wars that Christianity has occasioned, the persecutions, the tortures Christian has inflicted on Christian, the unkindness, the hypocracy, the intolerance, must consider the balance sheet with complacency. And when he remembers that it has laid upon mankind the bitter burden of the sense of sin that has darkened the beauty of the starry night and cast a baleful shadow on the passing plesures of a world to be enjoyed, he must chuckle as he murmurs: give the devil his due.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Christian, War, Night

  W. Somerset Maugham (2008). “The Razor's Edge”, p.226, Random House

• The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for while sin may be venial, digression is mortal.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Saint, May, Sin

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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