“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 think I have always liked my fellow men. Liking is a great deal safer than love. It doesn't demand victims. Who… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
One of the things which danger does to you after a time is -, well, to kill emotion. I don't think I… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Had a couple of drinks by myself. It was a mistake. Have I got to give up drinking, too? If I eliminate… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“But my love had no intentions: it knew the future. All one could do was try to make the future less hard,… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“But if love had to die, I wanted it to die quickly. It was as though our love were a small creature… — 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
“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
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
“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
God is love. I don't say the heart doesn't feel a taste of it, but what a taste. The smallest glass of… — 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
