"Innocence is a kind of insanity" — Graham Greene

"Innocence is a kind of insanity"

— 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 Innocence Quotes

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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately. — Alec Baldwin
There is no aphrodisiac like innocence. — Jean Baudrillard
Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it… — Jean Baudrillard
It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer. — William Blackstone
Every harlot was a virgin once. — William Blake
The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn… — Elizabeth Bowen
Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention… — Anita Brookner
Ignorance is not innocence but sin. — Robert Browning
Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved… — Tammy Bruce
Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of… — George W. Bush
Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes. — Samuel Butler

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