We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us. — 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 have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
If two people loved, they slept together; it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I get fed up with all this nonsense of ringing people up and lighting cigarettes and answering the doorbell that passes for… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
People change,' she said 'Oh, no they don't. Look at me. I've never changed. It's like those sticks of rock: bite it… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
All the emotions have something in common. People are quite aware of the sorrow there always is in lust, but they are… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
It infuriated him to think that there were still people in the state who believed in a loving and merciful God. There… — 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
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
“Nobody here could ever talk about a heaven on earth. Heaven remained rigidly in its proper place on the other side of… — 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
