That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer. — 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
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
They haven't left us much to believe in, have they?--even disbelief. I can't believe in anything bigger than a home or vaguer… — 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
If two people loved, they slept together; it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Its typical of Mexico, of the whole human race perhaps violence in favour of an ideal and then the ideal lost… — 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
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
“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’m not at peace anymore. I just want him like I used to in the old days. I want to be eating… — 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
It's strange how the human mind swings back and forth, from one extreme to another. Does truth lie at some point of… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Fun... human nature... does no one any harm... Regular as clockwork the old excuses came back into the alert, sad and dissatisfied… — 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
When he was young, he had thought love had something to do with understanding, but with age he knew that no human… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings. — 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
I have loved no part of the world like this and I have loved no women as I love you. You're 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 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
