black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Graham Greene

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
GRAHAM GREENE

Absence Forever Time
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
GRAHAM GREENE

Cruelty Destroy Pity
When we are not sure, we are alive.
GRAHAM GREENE

Alive One Liner
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
GRAHAM GREENE

Absence Forever Mathematics Occupy Space Time
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Heart Leadership Love Misery Stranger
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
GRAHAM GREENE

Black Human Nature
All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
GRAHAM GREENE

Bad Forget Goodness Imagination Journalism Memories Yourself
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Action Betrayal Guilty Hands Necessary Study Tension
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
GRAHAM GREENE

Human Interest Strike
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
GRAHAM GREENE

Better Lying Seek Truth
I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
GRAHAM GREENE

Love Myself Thinking
Hate is a lack of imagination.
GRAHAM GREENE

Hate Imagination One Liner
I aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
GRAHAM GREENE

Achievement Content Goal Myself Possible Production Satisfaction Time Work
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
GRAHAM GREENE

God Mercy Strange Yourself
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
GRAHAM GREENE

Lost Slow Virtue
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
GRAHAM GREENE

Generalization Love Meaning People Quote

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Graham Greene Quotes