"Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a……" — Graham Greene
"Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor."
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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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More Beleaguered Quotes
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No torture has yet been devised that could get a liberal to mention the poor, beleaguered Kurds dancing in the…
— Ann Coulter
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Religion isn't best understood primarily as a collection of beliefs held by backward people with fear and trembling for most…
— David Dark
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Surely women's liberation is a most unpromising panacea. But the movement is working politically, because our sexuality is so confused,…
— George Gilder
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I suppose there must be some way in which I'm compelled to show some side of myself - or of…
— Paul Giamatti
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The fatalism of the limits-to-growth alternative is reasonable only if one ignores all the resources beyond our atmosphere, resources thousands…
— Gerard K. O'Neill
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We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something…
— H. L. Mencken
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I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes.
— Camille Paglia
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Mosca said nothing. The word ‘damsel’ rankled with her. She suddenly thought of the clawed girl from the night before,…
— Frances Hardinge
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We, the people. Manifest Destiny. Conceived in liberty. Fear itself. Ask not. Morning in America. United we stand. Yes, we…
— Ron Fournier
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Marriage is like a beleaguered fortress: those who are outside want to get in, and those inside want to get…
— French Proverb
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