Graham Greene

Born :2 October 1904

Tribute :3 April 1991

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Graham Greene born on 2nd October 1904, and passed away on 3rd April 1991, leaving behind a legacy that continues to inspire generations. Over the past 86 years, we have thoughtfully curated a selection of 40 powerful, inspirational, and motivational quotes - carefully handpicked from an extensive archive of life lessons and timeless wisdom. This legendary quote writer was born in british and went on to share won inspiring words with the world, leaving behind a global legacy that transcends borders.

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Quotes of Graham Greene

Timeless words and powerful thoughts from Graham Greene - discover the wisdom, inspiration, and voice behind the quotes that continue to resonate

Failure too is a form of death.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

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.

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing.

A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.

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.

The world doesn't make any heroes anymore.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

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?

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution.

The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn.

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.

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.

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.

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.

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