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.
GRAHAM GREENEThe 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.
GRAHAM GREENEThere’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
GRAHAM GREENEHe was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
GRAHAM GREENEIn a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
GRAHAM GREENEMorality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
GRAHAM GREENEFor an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
GRAHAM GREENEAll good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
GRAHAM GREENEWe never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
GRAHAM GREENEEvery monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
GRAHAM GREENEFriendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
GRAHAM GREENEMy two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
GRAHAM GREENEIt is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
GRAHAM GREENEI can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
GRAHAM GREENEWould the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
GRAHAM GREENEIt 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 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.
GRAHAM GREENE