Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
What an unbearable creature he must have been in those days--and yet in those days he had been comparatively innocent. That was… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“They killed him because he was too innocent to live. He was young and ignorant and silly and he got involved. He… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“That was my first instinct -- to protect him. It never occurred to me that there was a greater need to protect… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower. — 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
