Quotes by Graham Greene

A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious. (Graham Greene)

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. (Graham Greene)

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. (Graham Greene)

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)

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation. (Graham Greene)

Failure too is a form of death. (Graham Greene)

He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return. (Graham Greene)

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought. (Graham Greene)

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. (Graham Greene)

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. (Graham Greene)