Quote by Graham Greene
We mustnt complain too much of being comedians -- its an honorable

We mustnt complain too much of being comedians — its an honorable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed — thats all. We are bad comedians, we arent bad men. – Graham Greene

Other quotes by Graham Greene

Writing is a form of therapy sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation. – Graham Greene

Category:
Fear
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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

Category:
Corruption
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A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction. – Graham Greene

Category:
Truth
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Other Quotes from
Comedy
category

I was doing stand-up at a restaurant and there was a chalkboard on the street out front. It said, Soup of the Day: Cream of Asparagus. Ellen DeGeneres. – Ellen DeGeneres

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Comedy

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth. – George Jean Nathan

Category:
Comedy

Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act. – Marty Feldman

Category:
Comedy

Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface. – Paul Goodman

Category:
Comedy

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