Graham Greene Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: playwright
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: October 2, 1904 - April 3, 1991

Topics

BeautifulWarCleverSuccessfulWage

Nothing is above the Constitution.

Joao Lourenco

ConstitutionNothingAbove

I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones.

Joe Elliott

ArchitectureBetterBuildingsLook

Problems and issues will always be there, and they'll never leave our side, so the object is to have a good time and make fun out of whatever we do.

Joey Kramer

GoodTimeFunProblemsWillNever

I just love pranks, man. They're great. I don't understand why people don't do 'em more often.

Jermaine Fowler

LoveGreatManPeopleUnderstand

Vladimir Nabokov liked to examine cruelty and the human condition. That didn't mean he was cruel; there's no evidence he kicked puppies just for the fun of it. Similarly, 'Black Mirror' likes to examine possible dystopias, but that doesn't mean the show is cynical enough to endorse them.

Jeff Vandermeer

MirrorFunBlackEnoughPossible

The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.

Steve Perry

FearManVengeanceNeedInjuryMust

I respond in the moment which is what makes me a good actor.

Russell Crowe

GoodMomentMeActorRespondMakes

That's why it has to be a nonprofit, because a nonprofit is required to take monies it receives and use them for the purposes for which it's chartered by the government. It can't be pocketed.

Mitch Kapor

GovernmentWhyTakeBecauseUse

If you are going to try and hide something, sooner or later people are going to find out.

Lou Ferrigno

PeopleYouHideFindTryOut

The primary goal of publishing general fiction and non-fiction was never profit - though profit was essential to stay in the game. Publishing is a vocation in which the work is its own reward, an insufficient goal for today's conglomerates.

Jason Epstein

WorkTodayGameRewardGoalProfit

As a kid, I spent an awful lot of time pretending I was somebody else. I think growing up in the 1980s wasn't very exciting so you kind of create this secret life of an alternate person. You pretend to be whatever you need to be that day, so you live in that dream world.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

LifeLiveTimeDayGrowing UpWorld

I often feel the need of a man to take care of me, even though I can certainly take care of myself.

Dionne Warwick

MyselfManMeCareTake CareFeel

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