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 GREENEIt is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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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.
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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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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor – the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.
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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
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We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.
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One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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