46 Quotations by Graham Greene
- 1. A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to hi ...
- 2. A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that n ...
- 3. Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not agains ...
- 4. As the end of the what is called the 'sexual life' the only love which has lasted is the love which ...
- 5. Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up man or ...
- 6. Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be ex ...
- 7. Communism, my friend, is more than Marxism, just as Catholicism is more than the Roman Curia. There ...
- 8. Cynicism is cheap -- you can buy it at any Monoprix store -- it's built into all poor-quality goods.
- 9. Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.
- 10. Failure too is a form of death...
- 11. God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed -- that is the meaning o ...
- 12. He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
- 13. He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.
- 14. His hilarity was like a scream from a crevasse.
- 15. However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a ma ...
- 16. I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect -- it changes a relation. The man who offers a bri ...
- 17. If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the fai ...
- 18. In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
- 19. In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but th ...
- 20. Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves again ...
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