Graham Greene Quotes

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

Fear, Human, Writing

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
Graham Greene

Great, Everything, Boring

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
Graham Greene

Happy, Ignorance, Evil

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
Graham Greene

Future, Moment, Door

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

Technology, Truth, Lie

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

Truth, Kindness, Human

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
Graham Greene

Relationship, Kindness, Human

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
Graham Greene

Age, Wisdom, Sad

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

Truth, Trying, Why

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.
Graham Greene

Freedom, Thought, Another

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
Graham Greene

Nature, Human, Black

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
Graham Greene

Life, Trust, Through

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.
Graham Greene

Happiness, Human, Understand

The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him.
Graham Greene

Character, Him, Thought

When we are not sure, we are alive.
Graham Greene

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.
Graham Greene

Book, Cannot, Spirit

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

Lost, Against, Ourselves

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
Graham Greene

Bad, Mean, Word

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.
Graham Greene

Good, Brain, Two

Failure too is a form of death.
Graham Greene

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
Graham Greene

Love, Peace, Democracy

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
Graham Greene

Lost, Meaning, Dumb

Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing.
Graham Greene

Human, Why, Same

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.
Graham Greene

Success, Failure, Dangerous

They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.
Graham Greene

Love, God, Kindness

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Playwright

Born: October 2, 1904

Died: April 3, 1991

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