“You can’t conceive, my child, nor can I or anyone the … appalling … strangeness of the mercy of God.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“In a crisis perhaps it is old clichés one clings to, like a child to a parent.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“That was what happened to a man in the end: the stuffy room, the wakeful children, the Saturday night movements from the… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Who knows whether there may not be a moment in childhood when the world changes forever, like making a face when the… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in...We should be thankful we cannot see… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“He was filled with horror at the thought of what a child becomes, and what the dead must feel watching the change… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“It was too easy to die for what was good or beautiful, for home or children or a civilization - it needed… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Don't you believe it. I'll tell you what life is. It's gaol, it's not knowing where to get some money. Worms and… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Childhood was the germ of all mistrust. You were cruelly joked upon and then you cruelly joked. You lost the remembrance of… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Wouldn't we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a… — 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
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
“Perhaps it is only in childhood that books have any deep influence on our lives. In later life we admire, we are… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“I was baptized one foggy afternoon about four o'clock. I couldn't think of any names I particularly wanted, so I kept my… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“The woman had gone down on her knees and was shuffling slowly across the cruel ground towards the group of crosses: the… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“I was an only child. It's a great disadvantage being an only child.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness.… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“The first dog I ever had was called Prince. I called him after the Black Prince. You know, the fellow who...' 'Massacred… — 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
“Then he allowed himself to strike, like his childhood hero Allan Quatermain, off on that long slow underground stream which bore him… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
