Graham Greene Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Failure too is a form of death.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.”

“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.”

“The world doesn't make any heroes anymore.”

“Reality in our century is not something to be faced.”

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