Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“I think, for the writer, rather as for the priest, there isn't such a thing as success.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Why are some of us, he wondered, unable to love success or power or great beauty? Because we feel unworthy of them,… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I aim to be content with what I produce. It's an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word… — 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
