--- title: "13 Long Quotes By Graham Greene" description: "13 Long quotes by Graham Greene. Plus more from Graham Greene and more Long sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86f/graham-greene-441_anything-is-possible_as-long-as-nothing-happens-anything-is-p_2079507.jpg" --- > [As long as nothing happens anything is possible...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/as-long-as-nothing-happens-anything-is-possible/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86f/graham-greene-441_anything-is-possible_as-long-as-nothing-happens-anything-is-p_2079507.jpg) > [As long as one suffers one lives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/as-long-as-one-suffers-one-lives/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d7d/graham-greene-441_lives_as-long-as-one-suffers-one-lives-2746095_2746095.jpg) > [“If you live in a place for long you cease to read about it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/if-you-live-in-a-place-for-long-you-cease-to-read-about-it/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a05/graham-greene-441_cease_if-you-live-in-a-place-for-long-you-ceas_748227.jpg) > [Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/beauty-is-like-success-we-can-t-love-it-for-long/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/742/graham-greene-441_beauty_beauty-is-like-success-we-can-t-love-it_2630712.jpg) > [Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/death-will-come-in-any-case-and-there-is-a-long-afterwards-if-the/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ff/graham-greene-441_cases_death-will-come-in-any-case-and-there-is_508583.jpg) > [So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/so-long-as-one-is-happy-one-can-endure-any-discipline-it-was/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/019/graham-greene-441_broke_so-long-as-one-is-happy-one-can-endure-a_116255.jpg) > [He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/he-gave-her-a-bright-fake-smile-so-much-of-life-was-a-putting-off-of/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/60e/graham-greene-441_another-time_he-gave-her-a-bright-fake-smile-so-much_2238403.jpg) > [It seemed to Scobie that life was immeasurably long. Couldn’t the test of man have been carried out in fewer years? Couldn’t…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/it-seemed-to-scobie-that-life-was-immeasurably-long-couldn-t-the-test/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5eb/graham-greene-441_committed_it-seemed-to-scobie-that-life-was-immeas_1086038.jpg) > [Yesterday I went home with him and we did the usual things. I haven't the nerve to put them down, but I'd…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/yesterday-i-went-home-with-him-and-we-did-the-usual-things-i-haven-t/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33c/graham-greene-441_ends_yesterday-i-went-home-with-him-and-we-di_1695625.jpg) > [Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/our-heroes-are-simple-they-are-brave-they-tell-the-truth-they-are/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d43/graham-greene-441_book_our-heroes-are-simple-they-are-brave-the_552230.jpg) > [Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/life-would-go-out-in-a-fraction-of-a-second-that-was-the-phrase-but/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89e/graham-greene-441_clock_life-would-go-out-in-a-fraction-of-a-sec_2804748.jpg) > [Tea at college was served on long tables with an urn at the end of each. Long baguettes of bread, three to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/tea-at-college-was-served-on-long-tables-with-an-urn-at-the-end-of/) [Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/87b/graham-greene-441_baguettes_tea-at-college-was-served-on-long-tables_1177119.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) ## Other authors on Long ## 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/long/graham-greene/#itemlist", "name": "13 Long Quotes By Graham Greene", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "As long as nothing happens anything is possible...", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Graham Greene" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/as-long-as-nothing-happens-anything-is-possible/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86f/graham-greene-441_anything-is-possible_as-long-as-nothing-happens-anything-is-p_2079507.jpg", "contentUrl": 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