“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
No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
They haven't left us much to believe, have they? — even disbelief. I can't believe in anything bigger than a home, or… — 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
One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about… — 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
