“But we do not love people for what they do for us. Love happens to us; it isn't created.” — 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
“It was a city to visit, not a city to live in, but it was the city where Wormold had first fallen… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“I like to have a secret love affair, a hidden life, something to lie about.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“I think I have always liked my fellow men. Liking is a great deal safer than love. It doesn't demand victims. Who… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries? — 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
“It isn't. when you come to think of it a quite respectable trade, the detection of the innocent, for aren't lovers nearly… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
God is love. I don't say the heart doesn't feel a taste of it, but what a taste. The smallest glass of… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
...and yet could swear it was just then that I fell in love. It wasn't, of course, simply the onions -- it… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“...I didn't know it buy You moved in the pain. I said, "let him be alive,' not believing in You, and my… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
A brain is only capable of what it could conceive, andit couldnt concieve what it hasnt experienced — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Sometimes I get so tired of trying to convince him that I love him and shall love him for ever. He pounces… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“I thought of Phuong just because of her complete absence. So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“There's nothing discreditable about jealousy, Mr Bendrix. I always salute it as the mark of true love.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“One can't reason away regret-it's a bit like falling in love, falling into regret.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
For God's sake stop making people in your image. Harry was real. He wasn't just your hero and my lover. He was… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Those who marry God can become domesticated too - it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word Love… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“When I began to realize how often we quarrelled, how often I picked on her with nervous irritation, I became aware that… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Had a couple of drinks by myself. It was a mistake. Have I got to give up drinking, too? If I eliminate… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“But if love had to die, I wanted it to die quickly. It was as though our love were a small creature… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations...I don't think even my… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“You'd taken my disbelief into Your love, keeping them to show me later, so that we could both laugh.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock! — 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
