black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Graham Greene

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
GRAHAM GREENE

Impossible Life Oneself Prison Trust
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
GRAHAM GREENE

Fear Hate Humiliation Response
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
GRAHAM GREENE

Desert Escape Silence Yourself
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
GRAHAM GREENE

God Mercy Strange Yourself
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
GRAHAM GREENE

Better Lying Seek Truth
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
Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
GRAHAM GREENE

Country Love Loyalty World
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Blood Creature Death Eyes Love
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
GRAHAM GREENE

Love Relationship Talk
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
GRAHAM GREENE

Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
GRAHAM GREENE

Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
GRAHAM GREENE

Live Point Return Time
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Clothes Love Mindset Ourselves Philosophy Time
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
GRAHAM GREENE

Face Generation Ourselves Reality
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
GRAHAM GREENE

Black Human Nature
Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
GRAHAM GREENE

Cold Diamond Heart Oneself Precious Value Warmth

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Graham Greene Quotes