# Quote — Chinua Achebe, No Longer at Ease

> If one finger brings oil it soils the others.

- Author: [Chinua Achebe](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chinua-achebe.md)
- Book: [No Longer at Ease](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chinua-achebe/no-longer-at-ease.md)
- Page: 75
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chinua_Achebe#No_Longer_at_Ease_(1960)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/chinua-achebe/no-longer-at-ease/if-one-finger

## More from this book

> A man to whom you do a favor will not understand if you say nothing, make no noise, just walk away. You may cause more trouble by refusing a bribe than by accepting it.

p. 87 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chinua-achebe/no-longer-at-ease/a-man-to-whom.md)

> Real tragedy is never resolved. It goes on hopelessly forever. Conventional tragedy is too easy. The hero dies and we feel a purging of the emotions. A real tragedy takes place in a corner, in an untidy spot, to quote W. H. Auden.

p. 43 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chinua-achebe/no-longer-at-ease/real-tragedy-is-never.md)

> When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun.

p. 95 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chinua-achebe/no-longer-at-ease/when-there-is-a-big.md)