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

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

- Graham Greene

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.

- Graham Greene

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

- Graham Greene

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

- Graham Greene

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

- Graham Greene

The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him.

- Graham Greene

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

- Graham Greene

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

- Graham Greene

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.

- Graham Greene

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

- Graham Greene

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

- Graham Greene

When we are not sure, we are alive.

- Graham Greene

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

- Graham Greene

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.

- Graham Greene

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

- Graham Greene

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

- Graham Greene

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

- Graham Greene

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

- Graham Greene

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.

- Graham Greene