“There's nothing discreditable about jealousy, Mr Bendrix. I always salute it as the mark of true love.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“The act of lust and the act of love are the same; it cannot be falsified like a sentiment.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“He felt the sad relief of a man who realizes that there is one love at least that no longer hurts him.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“I doubt if ever one ceases to love, but one can cease to be in love as easily as one can outgrow… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness. — 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
A brain is only capable of what it could conceive, andit couldnt concieve what it hasnt experienced — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Have you seen a room from which faith has gone? Like a marriage from which love has gone. And patience, patience everywhere… — 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
We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
If I stopped loving Him, I would cease to believe in His love. If I loved God, then I would believe in… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I thought I am kissing pain and pain belongs to You as happiness never does. I love You in Your pain. I… — 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
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
I envied those who could believe in a God and I distrusted them. I felt they were keeping their courage up with… — 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
“I have no need to write to you or talk to you, you know everything before I can speak, but when one… — 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
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
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
“She had often disconcerted me by the truth. In the days when we were in love, I would try to get her… — 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
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
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
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
“...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
“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
“Did you find anything special?' Blackie asked. T. nodded. 'Come over here,' he said, 'and look.' Out of both pockets he drew… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Oh well, perhaps when you're my age you'll know the heart is an untrustworthy beast.The mind too,but it doesn't talk about love. — 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 had committed myself: without love I'd have to go through the gestures of love. — 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
“If I'm a bitch and a fake, is there nobody who will love a bitch and a fake?” — 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
It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If… — 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
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
“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
