Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Graham Greene quotes, Graham Greene sayings, and Graham Greene proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Switzerland is only bearable covered with snow...like some people are only bearable under a sheet.Graham Greene
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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.Graham Greene
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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.Graham Greene
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They sounded like truth but he rejected them. Comfort can come too easily: he thought, those hands will never hold my fall.Graham Greene
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No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain.Graham Greene
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.Graham Greene
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Some lies are just kindness.Graham Greene
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Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against itGraham Greene
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In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.Graham Greene
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.Graham Greene
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I slipped a bullet into a chamber and, holding the revolver behind my back, spun the chambers [cylinders] round... I put the muzzle... into my right ear and pulled the trigger. There was a minute click, and looking down at the chamber I could see that the charge [the bullet] had moved into the firing position. Graham Greene
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.Graham Greene
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Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor.Graham Greene
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Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.Graham Greene
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There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.Graham Greene
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What do we ever get nowadays from reading to equal the excitement and revelation in those first fourteen years?Graham Greene
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You can't blame the innocent; they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them.Graham Greene
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.Graham Greene