Graham Greene Quotes
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene 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 GreeneGraham Greene God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene The hands of the guilty don’t necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene 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.
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