--- title: "7 Glasses Quotes By Graham Greene" description: "7 Glasses quotes by Graham Greene. Plus more from Graham Greene and more Glasses sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a60/graham-greene-441_action_the-hands-of-the-guilty-don-t-necessaril_250532.jpg" --- > [The hands of the guilty don't necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/the-hands-of-the-guilty-don-t-necessarily-tremble-only-in-stories/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a60/graham-greene-441_action_the-hands-of-the-guilty-don-t-necessaril_250532.jpg) > [God is love. I don't say the heart doesn't feel a taste of it, but what a taste. The smallest glass of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/god-is-love-i-don-t-say-the-heart-doesn-t-feel-a-taste-of-it-but-what/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/075/graham-greene-441_dark_god-is-love-i-don-t-say-the-heart-doesn_266349.jpg) > [There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/there-was-a-tacit-understanding-between-them-that-liquor-helped/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2e0/graham-greene-441_alcohol_there-was-a-tacit-understanding-between_539018.jpg) > [At one with the One, it didn't mean a thing besides a glass of Guinness on a sunny day.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/at-one-with-the-one-it-didn-t-mean-a-thing-besides-a-glass-of/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39e/graham-greene-441_glasses_at-one-with-the-one-it-didn-t-mean-a-thi_1321811.jpg) > [I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/i-say-that-home-is-where-there-is-a-chair-and-a-glass/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d83/graham-greene-441_chairs_i-say-that-home-is-where-there-is-a-chai_1724570.jpg) > [I wrote at the start that this was a record of hate, and walking there beside Henry towards the evening glass of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/i-wrote-at-the-start-that-this-was-a-record-of-hate-and-walking-there/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/53b/graham-greene-441_beer_i-wrote-at-the-start-that-this-was-a-rec_1860727.jpg) > [Oh,' the priest said, 'that's another thing altogether - God is love. I don't say the heart doesn't feel a taste of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/oh-the-priest-said-that-s-another-thing-altogether-god-is-love-i-don/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae2/graham-greene-441_dark_oh-the-priest-said-that-s-another-thing_3168645.jpg) ## Other authors on Glasses ## More by Graham Greene > [“Time gives poetry to a battlefield...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/time-gives-poetry-to-a-battlefield/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) > [“What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/what-is-cowardice-in-the-young-is-wisdom-in-the-old-but-all-the-same/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) > [Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/pity-is-cruel-pity-destroys/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) > [Hate is a lack of imagination.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/hate-is-a-lack-of-imagination/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) > [Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/despair-is-the-price-one-pays-for-setting-oneself-an-impossible-aim/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/knowledge-was-the-great-thing-not-abstract-knowledge-in-which-dr/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/with-your-great-schemes-you-ruin-our-happiness-like-a-harvester-ruins/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) > [Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/heresy-is-only-another-word-for-freedom-of-thought/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/he-had-thought-that-home-was-something-one-possessed-but-the-things/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) > [Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/perhaps-the-comparison-is-closer-to-the-chinese-cook-who-leaves/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) > [“He said, ‘Oh god, help her. Damn me, I deserve it, but let her live forever.’ This was the love he should have felt…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/he-said-oh-god-help-her-damn-me-i-deserve-it-but-let-her-live-forever/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) > [“A police photograph is like a passport photograph: the intelligence which casts a veil over the crude common shape is never recorded by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/a-police-photograph-is-like-a-passport-photograph-the-intelligence/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) > [ “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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/i-tossed-up-whether-i-d-see-the-critic-or-not-i-knew-too-well-the/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) > [Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/success-is-more-dangerous-than-failure-the-ripples-break-over-a-wider/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) > [“But we do not love people for what they do for us. Love happens to us; it isn't created.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/but-we-do-not-love-people-for-what-they-do-for-us-love-happens-to-us/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/glasses/graham-greene/#itemlist", "name": "7 Glasses Quotes By Graham Greene", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The hands of the guilty don't necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. 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