“So much of war is sitting around doing nothing, waiting for someone else. With no guarantee of the amount of time you… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“So much of war is sitting around and doing nothing, waiting for somebody else. With no guarantee of the amount of time… — 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
I aim to be content with what I produce. It's an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Human communication, it sometimes seems to me, involves an exaggerated amount of time. How briefly and to the point people always seem… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Death never mattered at those times - in the early days I even used to pray for it: the shattering annihilation that… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
When I replied that I loved her too in that way, I was the liar, not she, for I never lose the… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“He was feeling happy. It was one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that… — 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
One gets started, and then, suddenly, one cannot remember what toothpaste they use . . . the moment comes when a character… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“I felt for the first time the premonitory of loneliness.It was all fantastic, and yet, and yet...He might be a poor lover,… — 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
