"We never get accustomed to being less important……" — Graham Greene
"We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us."
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Graham Greene
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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 Accustomed Quotes
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We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
— Teresa of Avila
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An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.
— John Berger
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It's been a long blessed career. I've been riddled with injuries the past two and a half years and haven't…
— Terrence Trammell
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Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others
— Milarepa
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It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be…
— Benjamin Franklin
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One way to recollect the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquillity, is not…
— Brother Lawrence
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Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on…
— Abraham Lincoln
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It is the duty of all papas and mammas to forbid their children to drink coffee, unless they wish to…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up,…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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