"She mixes religion with desertion to make it…" — Graham Greene
"She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble."
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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 Desertion Quotes
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one of 22 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion,…
— Samuel Butler
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The Lord Jesus died for the ungodly. He was obedient at all costs : He bore everything, and went down…
— John Nelson Darby
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And no. I must not go on thinking. For the pain will never go away. You just go on and…
— J P Donleavy
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The humility of Jesus can be seen in the crib, in the exile to Egypt, in the hidden life, in…
— Mother Teresa
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To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink…
— Samuel Beckett
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To my son Hugh, in return for the care and sorrow he has caused me all the days of his…
— Unknown Author
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It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they went…
— Emile Zola
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Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
— George Bernard Shaw
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The desertion of Jesus, by his followers, furnishes an argument in support of the supposition that he attempted to be…
— Lysander Spooner
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When someone doesn't show up, the people who wait sometimes tell stories about what might have happened and come to…
— Rebecca Solnit
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The year 1776, celebrated as the birth year of the nation and for the signing of the Declaration of Independence,…
— David McCullough
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