So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Yesterday I went home with him and we did the usual things. I haven't the nerve to put them down, but I'd… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
It seemed to Scobie that life was immeasurably long. Couldn’t the test of man have been carried out in fewer years? Couldn’t… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Tea at college was served on long tables with an urn at the end of each. Long baguettes of bread, three to… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
If only it were possible to love without injury – fidelity isn’t enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I… — 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
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
“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
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
“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
Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved. — Graham Greene Copy Share
“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
“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
“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… — Graham Greene Copy Share
Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline. — Graham Greene Copy Share
“But we do not love people for what they do for us. Love happens to us; it isn't created.” — Graham Greene Copy Share
