--- title: "7 Innocent Quotes By Graham Greene" description: "7 Innocent quotes by Graham Greene. Plus more from Graham Greene and more Innocent sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f6/graham-greene-441_body_if-only-it-were-possible-to-love-without_244488.jpg" --- > [If only it were possible to love without injury – fidelity isn’t enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/if-only-it-were-possible-to-love-without-injury-fidelity-isn-t-enough/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f6/graham-greene-441_body_if-only-it-were-possible-to-love-without_244488.jpg) > [“It isn't. when you come to think of it a quite respectable trade, the detection of the innocent, for aren't lovers nearly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/it-isn-t-when-you-come-to-think-of-it-a-quite-respectable-trade-the/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/16e/graham-greene-441_love_it-isn-t-when-you-come-to-think-of-it-a_251494.jpg) > [What an unbearable creature he must have been in those days--and yet in those days he had been comparatively innocent. That was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/what-an-unbearable-creature-he-must-have-been-in-those-days-and-yet/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de1/graham-greene-441_corruption_what-an-unbearable-creature-he-must-have_518217.jpg) > [“What's the good? he'll always be innocent, you can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/what-s-the-good-he-ll-always-be-innocent-you-can-t-blame-the-innocent/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e5/graham-greene-441_innocence_what-s-the-good-he-ll-always-be-innocent_2261651.jpg) > [“You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/you-can-t-blame-the-innocent-they-are-always-guiltless/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/171/graham-greene-441_blame_you-can-t-blame-the-innocent-they-are-al_2605081.jpg) > [God save us always,' I said 'from the innocent and the good.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/god-save-us-always-i-said-from-the-innocent-and-the-good/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33b/graham-greene-441_god_god-save-us-always-i-said-from-the-innoc_2888047.jpg) > [Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/unfortunately-the-innocent-are-always-involved-in-any-conflict-always/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/770/graham-greene-441_conflict_unfortunately-the-innocent-are-always-in_3137290.jpg) ## Other authors on Innocent ## 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/innocent/graham-greene/#itemlist", "name": "7 Innocent Quotes By Graham Greene", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If only it were possible to love without injury – fidelity isn’t enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her. The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or to be possessed without humiliation. In a way I was glad that my wife had struck out at me again – I had forgotten her pain for too long, and this was the only kind of recompense I could give her. 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