Graham Greene Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.

  Graham Greene

  Heart, Two, Cold

  Graham Greene (1948). “The Heart of the Matter”

• Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.

  Graham Greene

  Travel, Men, Jet Planes

• The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

  Graham Greene

  Truth, Honesty, Kindness

  Graham Greene (1960). “The Heart of The Matter”

• From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next year...death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever.

  Graham Greene

  Years, Childhood, Forever

• Oh, she doesn't belong to anybody now,' he said, and suddenly I saw her for what she was - a piece of refuse waiting to be cleared away: if you needed a bit of hair you could take it, or trim her nails if nail trimmings had value to you. Like a saint's her bones could be divided up - if anybody required them. She was going to be burnt soon, so why shouldn't everybody have what he wanted first? What a fool I had been during three years to imagine that in any way I had possessed her. We are all possessed by nobody, not even by ourselves.

  Graham Greene

  Hair, Years, Waiting

  Graham Greene (1974). “The end of the affair”, Vintage

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