Quote by Graham Greene
A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almo

A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous. – Graham Greene

Other quotes by Graham Greene

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. – Graham Greene

Category:
Trust
Read Quote

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

Category:
Alcohol
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Murder
category

When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder. – Simone Weil

Category:
Murder

Its frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen. – W. H. Auden

Category:
Murder

You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. – Vladimir Nabokov

Category:
Murder

Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime? If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime? – Marquis De Sade

Category:
Murder

Random Quotes

Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Writing

We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earths creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still. – Lewis Thomas

Category:
Future

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind. – Socrates

Category:
Beauty

Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think its an assault on citizenship. – Mark Steyn

Category:
Health