Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I had very good dentures once. Some magnificent gold work. It's the only form of jewelry a man can wear that women… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in… — 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
I could never have been a pacifist. To kill a man was surely to grant him an immeasurable benefit. Oh yes, people… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Men have prayed in prison, men have prayed in slums and concentration camps. It's only the middle class who demand to pray… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The border means more than a customs house, a passport officer, a man with a gun. Over there everything is going to… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
We mustn't complain too much of being comedians - it's an honorable profession. If only we could be good ones the world… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“With a novel, which takes perhaps years to write, the author is not the same man he was at the end of… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
They can print statistics and count the populations in hundreds of thousands, but to each man a city consists of no more… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Oh,' the priest said, 'that's another thing altogether - God is love. I don't say the heart doesn't feel a taste of… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Men can become twins with age. The past was their common womb; the six months of rain and the six months of… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I could have waited years, now that I knew the end of the story. I was cold and wet and very happy.… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn’t name… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it… — 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
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
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
Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Fun... human nature... does no one any harm... Regular as clockwork the old excuses came back into the alert, sad and dissatisfied… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
He couldn't tell that this was one of those occasions a man never forgets: a small cicatrice had been made on the… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
How often the priest had heard the same confession--Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity to invent a new vice:… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I want men to admire me, but that's a trick you learn at school--a movement of the eyes, a tone of voice,… — 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
“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
