Quote

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

Graham Greene

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Graham Greene
Age: 86 †
Born: 1904
Born: October 2
Died: 1991
Died: April 3
Autobiographer
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Berkhamsted
Hertfordshire
Henry Graham Greene
White
Black
Nature
Human
Humans
Grey

More quotes by Graham Greene

Image
In the taxi I let my hand lie on her leg like a promise, but I had no intention of keeping my promise.
Graham Greene
Image
So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.
Graham Greene
Image
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
Graham Greene
Image
Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night?
Graham Greene
Image
Happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness.
Graham Greene
Image
I'm only saying I want you to be happy. I hate your being unhappy. I don't mind anything you do that makes you happy. You just want an excuse. If I sleep with anybody else, you feel you can do the same - any time. That's neither here nor there. I want you to be happy, that's all. You'd make my bed for me? Perhaps.
Graham Greene
Image
Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.
Graham Greene
Image
God save us always,' I said 'from the innocent and the good.
Graham Greene
Image
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.
Graham Greene
Image
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
Graham Greene
Image
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.
Graham Greene
Image
All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
Graham Greene
Image
So much of life [is] a putting-off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing [is] ever lost by delay.
Graham Greene
Image
I had committed myself: without love I'd have to go through the gestures of love.
Graham Greene
Image
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
Graham Greene
Image
One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain at second hand.
Graham Greene
Image
As long as one suffers one lives.
Graham Greene
Image
Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.
Graham Greene
Image
From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next year...death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever.
Graham Greene
Image
Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason.
Graham Greene