Famous Quotes / Graham Greene
46 Quotations by Graham Greene
- 21. It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all ...
- 22. It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie ou ...
- 23. Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
- 24. Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
- 25. My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain ...
- 26. Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the int ...
- 27. People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs ...
- 28. People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations.
- 29. Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved.
- 30. Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil -- or else an ...
- 31. Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
- 32. Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
- 33. Sentimentality -- that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
- 34. Sentimentality -- that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
- 35. The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw awa ...
- 36. The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he ...
- 37. The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians an ...
- 38. There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
- 39. They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.
- 40. They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dan ...