Graham Greene Quotes
My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.
Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor.
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
At one with the One, it didn't mean a thing besides a glass of Guinness on a sunny day.
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.
I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.
Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?
The hands of the guilty don't necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night?
