Graham Greene

"Failure too is a form of death."

"Human nature is not black and white but black and grey."

"If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?"

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

"In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."

"In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!"

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

"People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery."

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

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