Graham Greene Quotes

I think even a hero is someone who has sort of the flaw or imperfection of character. I remember Alice Walker saying that once - she'd written a novel about a civil rights hero, and it was someone who had this flaw, this central flaw.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

It's very hard to play a man without any flaws.

I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.

I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments.

I think her flaws make me love her even more. She's not perfect, but she's perfect to me

There's good stuff and bad stuff, but you continue on. I'm not prescriptive - I cannot tell anyone else what to do with their lives, and I'm a deeply flawed individual - but this is it. We're all just living it and... bless us all.

Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.

There are novels that end well, but in between there are human beings acting like human beings. And human beings are not perfect. All of the motives a human being may have, which are mixed, that's the novelists' materials. That's where they have to go. And a lot of that just isn't pretty. We like to think of ourselves as really, really good people. But look in the mirror. Really look. Look at your own mixed motives. And then multiply that.

I don't think being flawed is a bad thing for a character... nor do I think it's a bad thing for a person in life, because that's how we all are.

Perfection, in anything, is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.

We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.

We can love with all our hearts those in whom we recognize great faults. It would be impertinent to believe that perfection alone has the right to please us; sometimes our weaknesses attach us to each other as much as our virtues.

Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. We human beings are best understood one at a time.

What I have always loved most in men is imperfection.

Perfect people don't exist. And perfect people, if they existed, would be very boring. It is imperfection that keeps life interesting.

The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues.You can't separate them. They're wedded.

Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.

It's the imperfections that make things beautiful.

I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.

She's not perfect, but she tries so hard for me. And I thank God, that she isn't, cause how boring that would be.

There's something in everyone only they know.

I don't entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I'm me. God knows, I'm me.

No man can be explained by his personal history, least of all a poet.