“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
One of the things which danger does to you after a time is -, well, to kill emotion. I don't think I… — 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
Hatred seems to work on the same glands as love: it even produces the same actions. If we had not been taught… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
When he was young, he had thought love had something to do with understanding, but with age he knew that no human… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“But my love had no intentions: it knew the future. All one could do was try to make the future less hard,… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“You were there teaching me to squander, so that one day we might have nothing left except this love of You. But… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“I became aware that our love was doomed; love had turned into a love affair with a beginning and an end. I… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Oh,' the priest said, 'that's another thing altogether - God is love. I don't say the heart doesn't feel a taste of… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again for ever. I envied those… — 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
