No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness. -Graham Greene Happiness
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation. -Graham Greene Fear
People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery. -Graham Greene Courage
Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline. -Graham Greene Success
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. -Graham Greene Trust
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. -Graham Greene Truth
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully. -Graham Greene Technology
In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. -Graham Greene Peace
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. -Graham Greene Age
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. -Graham Greene Sad
Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline. -Graham Greene Failure
If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask? -Graham Greene Faith
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. -Graham Greene Future
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction. -Graham Greene Truth
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. -Graham Greene Wisdom
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully. -Graham Greene Truth
