black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.

Graham Greene

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
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
GRAHAM GREENE

Harm Innocence Lost Meaning World
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Challenge Lying Seek Success 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
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
GRAHAM GREENE

Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
GRAHAM GREENE

Better Lying Seek Truth
One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
GRAHAM GREENE

Question Talent Time Willing Work
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Distance Fiction Journalism Novel Reason Truth Try Writing
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
GRAHAM GREENE

Food Furniture Home Myself
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
GRAHAM GREENE

Bad Journalism Media Word
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
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
GRAHAM GREENE

Humanity Love Oneself People
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
GRAHAM GREENE

Live Point Return Time
An autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
GRAHAM GREENE

Beginning Errors Life Necessary Selection
Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
GRAHAM GREENE

Content Mindset Quiet Rich Thinking
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
GRAHAM GREENE

Black Human Nature

They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Graham Greene Quotes