Quote by Graham Greene
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie dete

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. – Graham Greene

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I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect — it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman. – Graham Greene

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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 persons habitual misery. – Graham Greene

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Brandy, n. A cordial composed of one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan. – Ambrose Bierce

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I like liquor — its taste and its effects — and that is just the reason why I never drink it. – Stonewall Jackson

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Drinking makes you happy with your body the way it is. – Philip Rosenthal & Mike Royce, Everybody Loves Raymond, “Not So Fast” (seaso

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No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers. – Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Satires

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