God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
GRAHAM GREENEIn 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.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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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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As long as one suffers one lives.
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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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I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
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One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.
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