Graham Greene Quotes


I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist. Graham Greene God 1,047
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. Graham Greene Children 171
Innocence is a kind of insanity Graham Greene Innocence 127
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God. Graham Greene God 127
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism. Graham Greene Media 111
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. Graham Greene DeceptionLying 102
I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused. Graham Greene Ethics 101
God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution. Graham Greene Case 99
When we are not sure, we are alive. Graham Greene Certainty 94
Failure too is a form of death. Graham Greene Death 94
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. Graham Greene Age 89
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. Graham Greene Innocence 89
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey. Graham Greene Black 88
What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment Graham Greene Disappointment 86
The truth he thought 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 Greene Kindness 84
Hate is a lack of imagination. Graham Greene Acceptance 83
We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to. Graham Greene Death 81
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. Graham Greene Bell 81
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock! Graham Greene Peace 80
Why did [God] give us genitals then if he wanted us to think clearly? Graham Greene Sex 80
Failure too is a form of death. Graham Greene death 79
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction. Graham Greene Journalism 78
Reality in our century is not something to be faced. Graham Greene Reality 78
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys. Graham Greene Sociology 77
A story has no beginning or end arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead. Graham Greene Storytelling 74
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives. Graham Greene Life 74
Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. Graham Greene Marriage 73
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 Greene Being 73
There was a tacit understanding between them that liquor helped growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief. Graham Greene Alcohol 72
Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are. Graham Greene Life 71
I couldnt help wondering is my husband so unattractive that no woman has ever wanted him Except me of course. I must have wanted him in a way once but Ive forgotten why and I was too young to know what I was choosing. Graham Greene Marriage 71
Heresy is another word for freedom of thought. Graham Greene Freedom 67
I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman. Graham Greene Accepted 67
If we had not been taught how to interpret the story of the Passion, would we have been able to say from their actions alone whether it was the jealous Judas or the cowardly Peter who loved Christ? Graham Greene God 67
He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong. Graham Greene Sadness 67
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? Graham Greene Faith 66
We forget very easily what gives us pain. Graham Greene Psychology 63
Hes satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you cant be satisfied. Graham Greene Soul 63
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance. Graham Greene Happiness 59
If I had to choose between life in the Soviet Union and life in the U. S. A. , I would certainly choose the Soviet Union. Graham Greene 58
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 Greene Compose 57
I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil. Graham Greene Devil 57
He had been frightened and so he had been vehement. Graham Greene Psychology 57
This was hell then it wasnt anything to worry about it was just his own familiar room. Graham Greene Hell 56
No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness. Graham Greene Happy 54
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully. Graham Greene Alcohol 54
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. Graham Greene Trust 53
Hate is an automatic response to fear for fear humiliates. Graham Greene Hate 53
A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous. Graham Greene Murder 52
There is an old legend that somewhere in the world every man has his double. Graham Greene Human 52

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