Quote by Graham Greene
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can w

Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast. – Graham Greene

Other quotes by Graham Greene

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

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Peace
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Cynicism is cheap — you can buy it at any Monoprix store — its built into all poor-quality goods. – Graham Greene

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Cynicism
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Other Quotes from
War
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I dont feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldnt do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched. – Kevin Costner

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War

All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side. – George Wald

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War

I want to start my own airplane business. Im going to buy two Dakotas, paint them up in war colours and do, er, nostalgia trips to Arnhem – you know, where the old paratroopers used to go – and charge them about 20 quid a time. – Gary Numan

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War

This is a game. Thats all it is. Its not a war. – Jack Nicklaus

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War

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Life

Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer. – Morihei Ueshiba

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Courage

My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me. – Jonathan Winters

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sad

I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of William Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. – Bill Hoest (1926–1988)

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