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.

Quote by Graham Greene

Topics: Challenge Quotes, Success Quotes, Truth Quotes

Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on...

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on...

Media is a word that has come to mean bad journalism

Media is a word that has come to mean bad journalism

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies...

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies...

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

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

A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot...

A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot...

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

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

A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer...

A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer...

You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into...

You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into...

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in...

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in...

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not...

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not...

The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who...

The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who...

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it...

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it...

When we are not sure, we are alive.

When we are not sure, we are alive.

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that...

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that...

The world is not black and white. More like black and grey.

The world is not black and white. More like black and grey.

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from...

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from...

Failure too is a form of death.

Failure too is a form of death.