Graham Greene quotes - page 4

The old lady knelt, saying her 'Hail Mary'; She didn't believe - but among Catholics even the sceptical are courteous. (Graham Greene)
...the Boy sat silent. It was he this time who was being warned: life held the vitriol bottle and warned him: I'll spoil your looks.
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People don't like reality, they don't like common sense, until age forces it on them.
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...he knew there wasn't a soul in the mob he could trust – except perhaps Dallow. That didn't matter. You couldn't make mistakes when you trusted nobody.
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Can you hate something you don't believe in? And yet he called himself a free-thinker. What an impossible paradox, to be free and to be so obsessed.
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock! (Graham Greene)
Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn.
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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.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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You needn't be so scared. Love doesn't end. Just because we don't see each other.
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All the emotions have something in common. People are quite aware of the sorrow there always is in lust, but they are not so aware of the lust there is in sorrow.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
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So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.
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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable. (Graham Greene)
You cannot control what you love--you watch it driving recklessly towards the broken bridge, the torn-up track, the horror of seventy years ahead.
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Never presume yours is a better morality.
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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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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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