God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
GRAHAM GREENEOf 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.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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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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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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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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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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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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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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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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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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