Quotes by Graham Greene

Graham Greene

Graham Greene

English writer

Lived from: 1904 - 1991

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 2 october 1904 Died: 3 april 1991

  • It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.

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  • In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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  • His hilarity was like a scream from a crevasse.
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  • Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Cynicism is cheap - you can buy it at any Monoprix store - it's built into all poor-quality goods.
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  • Failure too is a form of death...
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  • God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution.
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  • He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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  • He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.
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  • Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.
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  • 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?
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  • In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers, when it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
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  • 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.
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  • It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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  • It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.
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  • Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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  • People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.
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  • Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
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What are the most famous quotes from Graham Greene?

The two most famous quotes from Graham Greene are:

  • "In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths."
  • "His hilarity was like a scream from a crevasse."

When did Graham Greene live?

Graham Greene was born in 1904 and died in the year 1991.