“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
“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 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
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
“What are we doing to each other? Because I know that I am doing to him exactly what he is doing to… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Why doesn't hatred kill desire? I would have given anything to sleep. I would have behaved like a schoolboy if I had… — 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
“Me? You are laughing at me. Put your hand here. This has no theology.' I mocked myself while I made love. I… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Is confidence based on a rate of exchange? We used to speak of sterling qualities. Have we got to talk now about… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
As the end of the what is called the 'sexual life' the only love which has lasted is the love which has… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I’m not at peace anymore. I just want him like I used to in the old days. I want to be eating… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute silence: only the… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Love is not wrong, but love should be happy and open -- it is only wrong when it is secret, unhappy .… — 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
