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Man Quotes by Graham Greene
- Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
- 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…
- Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin…
- I could never have been a pacifist. To kill a man was surely to grant him an immeasurable benefit. Oh yes, people always, everywhere, loved…
- A man kept his character even when he was insane.
- I could have waited years, now that I knew the end of the story. I was cold and wet and very happy. I could even…
- And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If I could I…
- How often the priest had heard the same confession--Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity to invent a new vice: the animals knew…
- When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity . . . that was a quality God's image…
- It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons…
- I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.
- Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason.
- Oh,' the priest said, 'that's another thing altogether - God is love. I don't say the heart doesn't feel a taste of it, but what…
- They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn’t name its price. A…
- It seemed to Scobie that life was immeasurably long. Couldn’t the test of man have been carried out in fewer years? Couldn’t we have committed…
- He couldn't tell that this was one of those occasions a man never forgets: a small cicatrice had been made on the memory, a wound…
- Any man who knocks on the door of a brothel is looking for God.
- They can print statistics and count the populations in hundreds of thousands, but to each man a city consists of no more than a few…
- I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little…
- A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only…
- Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up man or woman knows the answer to every question, there…
- Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin…
More Man Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle