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

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...

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

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

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war,...

Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war,...

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...

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning...

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning...

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...

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're...

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're...

When we are not sure, we are alive.

When we are not sure, we are alive.

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning...

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning...

The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At...

The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At...

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...

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard...

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard...

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

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

When we are not sure, we are alive.

When we are not sure, we are alive.

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...

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's...

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's...

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college......

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college......

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire...

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire...