“A romantic is usually afraid in case reality doesn't come up to expectations.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“One can't reason away regret-it's a bit like falling in love, falling into regret.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“But we do not love people for what they do for us. Love happens to us; it isn't created.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“If I'm a bitch and a fake, is there nobody who will love a bitch and a fake?” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I had committed myself: without love I'd have to go through the gestures of love. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“I like to have a secret love affair, a hidden life, something to lie about.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“You'd taken my disbelief into Your love, keeping them to show me later, so that we could both laugh.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries? — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy,… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
...and yet could swear it was just then that I fell in love. It wasn't, of course, simply the onions -- it… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
For God's sake stop making people in your image. Harry was real. He wasn't just your hero and my lover. He was… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“It was a city to visit, not a city to live in, but it was the city where Wormold had first fallen… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Can't one love or hate", I broke out at him, "as long as that? Don't make any mistake. I'm just another of… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“You were there teaching me to squander, so that one day we might have nothing left except this love of You. But… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Me? You are laughing at me. Put your hand here. This has no theology.' I mocked myself while I made love. I… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute silence: only the… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I’m not at peace anymore. I just want him like I used to in the old days. I want to be eating… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Sometimes I get so tired of trying to convince him that I love him and shall love him for ever. He pounces… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
It seemed to Scobie that life was immeasurably long. Couldn’t the test of man have been carried out in fewer years? Couldn’t… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations...I don't think even my… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“She had often disconcerted me by the truth. In the days when we were in love, I would try to get her… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I have loved no part of the world like this and I have loved no women as I love you. You're my… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“I have no need to write to you or talk to you, you know everything before I can speak, but when one… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
If only it were possible to love without injury – fidelity isn’t enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Did you find anything special?' Blackie asked. T. nodded. 'Come over here,' he said, 'and look.' Out of both pockets he drew… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again for ever. I envied those… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“That was the worst period of all: it is my profession to imagine, to think in images: fifty times through the day,… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock! — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
A brain is only capable of what it could conceive, andit couldnt concieve what it hasnt experienced — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“I doubt if ever one ceases to love, but one can cease to be in love as easily as one can outgrow… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Have you seen a room from which faith has gone? Like a marriage from which love has gone. And patience, patience everywhere… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Oh well, perhaps when you're my age you'll know the heart is an untrustworthy beast.The mind too,but it doesn't talk about love. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Love is not wrong, but love should be happy and open -- it is only wrong when it is secret, unhappy .… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“I thought of Phuong just because of her complete absence. So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Why doesn't hatred kill desire? I would have given anything to sleep. I would have behaved like a schoolboy if I had… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom.” — Graham Greene Copy Share
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a… — Graham Greene Copy Share
“Knowledge was the great thing--not abstract knowledge in which Dr. Forester had been so rich, the theories which lead one enticingly on with their… — Graham Greene Copy Share
With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though… — Graham Greene Copy Share
“He had thought that home was something one possessed, but the things one had possessed were cursed with change; it was what one didn't… — Graham Greene Copy Share
Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved. — Graham Greene Copy Share
“He said, ‘Oh god, help her. Damn me, I deserve it, but let her live forever.’ This was the love he should have felt… — Graham Greene Copy Share
“A police photograph is like a passport photograph: the intelligence which casts a veil over the crude common shape is never recorded by the… — Graham Greene Copy Share
“I tossed up whether I'd see [the critic] or not: I knew too well the pompous phrases of his article, the buried significance he… — Graham Greene Copy Share
Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline. — Graham Greene Copy Share
“But we do not love people for what they do for us. Love happens to us; it isn't created.” — Graham Greene Copy Share
