Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
GRAHAM GREENE
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
More Graham Greene Quotes
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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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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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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As long as one suffers one lives.
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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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.
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One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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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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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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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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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.
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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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For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
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