Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Graham Greene quotes, Graham Greene sayings, and Graham Greene proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel: sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.Graham Greene
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Hate is a lack of imagination.Graham Greene
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However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance -- so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamor to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature.Graham Greene
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Suffering is not increased by numbers; one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.Graham Greene
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A brain is only capable of what it could conceive, andit couldnt concieve what it hasnt experiencedGraham Greene
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People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.Graham Greene
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He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.Graham Greene
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If two people loved, they slept together; it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience.Graham Greene
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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.Graham Greene
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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.Graham Greene
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.Graham Greene
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Innocence is a kind of insanity.Graham Greene
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Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower.Graham Greene
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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.Graham Greene
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God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution.Graham Greene
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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
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. Graham Greene
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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.Graham Greene
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Innocence is a kind of insanity.Graham Greene
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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.Graham Greene
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One can't love humanity. One can only love people.Graham Greene
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.Graham Greene
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God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed. That is the meaning of evolution.Graham Greene
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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.Graham Greene
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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.Graham Greene
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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.Graham Greene
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A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.Graham Greene
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Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.Graham Greene
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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
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I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that standard of course she could not love me at all.Graham Greene