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

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

Graham Greene · Relationship

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Graham Greene

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.

Technology

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.

Fear

Graham Greene

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

Age

Graham Greene

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.

War