Quotes By 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.

They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.

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.

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

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.

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.

When we are not sure, we are alive.

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

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

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.