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Graham Greene Quotes

«Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.»
«My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.»
«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.»
«One of the things which danger does to you after a time is -, well, to kill emotion. I don't think I shall ever feel anything again except fear. None of us can hate anymore - or love.»
Author: Graham Greene | About: Emotion, Fear, Love | Keywords: anymore
«God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed -- that is the meaning of evolution.»
«No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.»
Author: Graham Greene | Keywords: arrange
«Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.»
Author: Graham Greene | Keywords: of age, The sense, withered
«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.»
Author: Graham Greene | About: Courage, Men | Keywords: bearing, condemned, execution, habitual
«Media is a word that has come to mean bad journalism»
Author: Graham Greene | About: Journalism, Media | Keywords: journalism, media
«Communism, my friend, is more than Marxism, just as Catholicism is more than the Roman Curia. There is a mystique as well as a politick. Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate.»

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