"Beauty is like success: we can't love it…" — Graham Greene

"Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long."

— Graham Greene

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207 Quotes by Graham Greene

Graham Greene has 207 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can…
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an…
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word,…
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive,…
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians…
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo…
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all,…
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
When we are not sure, we are alive.

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More Beauty Quotes

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty;… — David Attenborough
Beauty has a lot to do with character. — Kevyn Aucoin
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an… — Kevyn Aucoin
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You… — Kevyn Aucoin
That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty… — Kevyn Aucoin
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. — Kevyn Aucoin
Love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine

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