Famous Graham Greene Quotations

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"God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed -- that is the meaning of evolution."
by Graham Greene
"It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself."
by Graham Greene
"There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in."
by Graham Greene
"Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim."
by Graham Greene
"He Harris felt the loyalty we all feel to unhappiness -- the sense that that is where we really belong."
by Henry Graham Greene
"Heresy is another word for freedom of thought."
by Graham Greene
"It is impossible to go through life without trust That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself."
by Graham Greene
"Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt."
by Graham Greene
"Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt."
by Henry Graham Greene
"People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations."
by Graham Greene
"Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years."
by Graham Greene
"Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast."
by Graham Greene
"It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval."
by Graham Greene
"Communism, my friend, is more than Marxism, just as Catholicism is more than the Roman Curia. There is a mystique as well as a politick. Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate."
by Graham Greene
"I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect -- it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman."
by Graham Greene
"Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm."
by Graham Greene
"A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous."
by Graham Greene
"Reality in our century is not something to be faced."
by Graham Greene
"He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong."
by Graham Greene
"Death's at the bottom of everything, Martins. Leave death to the professionals."
by Graham Greene
"We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to."
by Graham Greene


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