Greene Quotes
29 quotes by 27 authors
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As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never…
— Julie Burchill
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Graham Greene famously said that all writers need a chip of ice in their heart; Cusk can come across as the most beautiful ice palace…
— Julie Burchill
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What more delightsome than an infinite varietie of sweet smelling flowers? decking with sundry colours the greene mantle of the Earth, the universall Mother of…
— William Lawson
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Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy
— Brendan Fraser
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To be completely honest, I didn`t know Twilight was a book. I thank God for Ashley Greene [who plays Alice Cullen]. She`s like, `Did you…
— Kellan Lutz
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I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.
— Alan Furst
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Sir Hugh Greene is the man I hold most responsible for the state of our country today. For 11 years hardly a week went by…
— Mary Whitehouse
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There is nobody else out there that I would put ahead of Joe Greene. By far the best Steeler of all time.
— Jack Ham
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Of all the criminal cases in which Philo Vance participated as unofficial investigator, the most sinister, the most bizarre, the seemingly most incomprehensible, and certainly…
— S. S. Van Dine
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Herschel Grynszpan's life was enigmatic, elusive and tragic. The traces he left on the historical record are just sufficient to tantalize and baffle historians. Harlan…
— Janette Turner Hospital
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I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of Wilkie Collins and…
— Ross Macdonald
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I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene
— David McCullough
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I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.
— Amy Waldman
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When I grew up Carl Lewis was still running, Maurice Greene was running - he was that figure I see, like Michael Johnson. I really…
— Tyson Gay
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Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
— Barbra Streisand
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My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.
— James D. Watson
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Lean against the edge, sweetheart. I'm falling off."--Brent Greene
— Gena Showalter
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The sad fact is that I love Dickens and Donne and Keats and Eliot and Forster and Conrad and Fitzgerald and Kafka and Wilde and…
— David Nicholls
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My parents were interested in history and the world. My father read Graham Greene and Georges Simenon and was a strong trade unionist and Labour…
— Robert Harris
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Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound extent.
— Paul Theroux
Who Wrote These Greene Quotes
27 authors contributed a total of 29 Greene Quotes, led by these top contributors: