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

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...

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...

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

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

A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.

A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.

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...

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...

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.

When we are not sure, we are alive.

When we are not sure, we are alive.

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...

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.

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

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.

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation....

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation....

One of the things which danger does to you after a time is -, well,...

One of the things which danger does to you after a time is -, well,...

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.

Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up...

Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up...

Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.

Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.

When you visualized a man or woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity...

When you visualized a man or woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity...

Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is...

Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is...

My earlier views at the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human...

My earlier views at the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human...

Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never...

Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never...