A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“In one great case a man [Winston Churchill] who had been considered too brilliant and too reckless ever to be trusted with… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“You are all alike, you people. You never learn the truth--that God knows nothing.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“They deserved nothing less than the truth--a vacant universe and a cooling world, the right to be happy in any way they… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up man or woman knows the answer to… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“She had often disconcerted me by the truth. In the days when we were in love, I would try to get her… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless,… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“What did the truth matter? All characters once dead, if they continue to exist in memory at all, tend to become fictions.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Knowledge was the great thing--not abstract knowledge in which Dr. Forester had been so rich, the theories which lead one enticingly on with their… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“He had thought that home was something one possessed, but the things one had possessed were cursed with change; it was what one didn't… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“He said, ‘Oh god, help her. Damn me, I deserve it, but let her live forever.’ This was the love he should have felt… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“A police photograph is like a passport photograph: the intelligence which casts a veil over the crude common shape is never recorded by the… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image