Graham Greene Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
Graham Greene quotes and sayings page 3 (deceased playwright born on Jun 22, 1952). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 40 we have for him.
“Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.”
“The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him.”
“Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.”
“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.”
“A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.”
“He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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?”
“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.”
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