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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