Graham Greene quotes - page 5

We forget very easily what gives us pain. (Graham Greene)
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast. View quote
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass. View quote
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time. View quote
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If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask? View quote
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If two people loved, they slept together; it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience. View quote
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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. View quote
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They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness. View quote
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How strange too and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day. View quote
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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. View quote
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I measured love by the extent of my jealousy. (Graham Greene)
It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much. View quote
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A man kept his character even when he was insane. View quote
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When I replied that I loved her too in that way, I was the liar, not she, for I never lose the consciousness of time: to me the present is never here: it is always last year or next week. View quote
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What happens if you drop all the things that make you I? View quote
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What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment? View quote
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And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed. View quote
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My passion for Sarah had killed simple lust forever. Never again would I be able to enjoy a woman without love. View quote
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A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit. View quote
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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong. View quote
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Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share. (Graham Greene)
Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are. View quote
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Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too. View quote
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Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it is the feast of failure, sad but consoling. View quote
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Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years. View quote
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