Quote: Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance. [Graham Greene]
Quote: I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect -- it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman. [Graham Greene]
Quote: Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation. [Graham Greene]
Quote: Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years. [Graham Greene]
Quote: Communism, my friend, is more than Marxism, just as Catholicism is more than the Roman Curia. There is a mystique as well as a politick. Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate. [Graham Greene]
Quote: When we are not sure, we are alive. [Graham Greene]
Quote: 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. [Graham Greene]
Quote: Failure too is a form of death... [Graham Greene]
Quote: God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed -- that is the meaning of evolution. [Graham Greene]
Quote: 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? [Graham Greene]
Quote: His hilarity was like a scream from a crevasse. [Graham Greene]
Quote: He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return. [Graham Greene]
Quote: 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. [Graham Greene]
Quote: In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. [Graham Greene]
Quote: Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism. [Graham Greene]
Quote: Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. [Graham Greene]
Quote: A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous. [Graham Greene]
Quote: He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong. [Graham Greene]
Quote: Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up man or woman knows the answer to every question, there is such a thing as truth, and justice is as measured and faultless as a clock. Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long run really defeated. That is why no later books satisfy us like those which were read to us in childhood --for those promised a world of great simplicity of which we knew the rules, but the later books are complicated and contradictory with experience; they are formed out of our own disappointing memories. [Graham Greene]
Quote: Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast. [Graham Greene]
Quote: Reality in our century is not something to be faced. [Graham Greene]
Quote: It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. [Graham Greene]