There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he… — 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
“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
“I'm afraid of the dark.' And his mother: 'Don't be silly. You know there's nothing to be afraid in the dark.' But… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“In a crisis perhaps it is old clichés one clings to, like a child to a parent.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“You try to draw everything into the net of your faith, father, but you can't steal all the virtues. Gentleness isn't Christian,… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“He looked with horror round the room: nobody could say he hadn't done right to get away from this, to commit any… — 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
