"Despair is the price one pays for setting……" — Graham Greene
"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 the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failur"
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207 Quotes by Graham Greene
Graham Greene has 207 quotes on this site.
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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can…
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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an…
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The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word,…
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive,…
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The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians…
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In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo…
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It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all,…
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
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What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially…
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No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath…
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point…
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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas…
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
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