God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
GRAHAM GREENEPity is cruel. Pity destroys.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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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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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.
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In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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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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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.
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Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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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.
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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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