"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
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War
― Graham Greene
More From Graham Greene
- "The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties."
- "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."
- "Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline."
More In War
- "The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers."― Virginia Woolf
- "If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking."― William Tecumseh Sherman
- "We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster."― Martha Beck