Time Quotes by Graham Greene

“Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour.”

— Graham Greene

I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different

— Graham Greene

There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.

— Graham Greene

“Time gives poetry to a battlefield...”

— Graham Greene

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.

— Graham Greene

“There are times, aren't there, when Shakespeare is a little dull.”

— Graham Greene

The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave…

— Graham Greene

One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.

— Graham Greene

“She thought for the first time, with happiness: perhaps I have a life in people's minds when I am not there to…

— Graham Greene

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

— Graham Greene

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which…

— Graham Greene

“Oh, and there was pride, of course. It takes a long time before we cease to feel proud of being wanted.”

— Graham Greene

There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of…

— Graham Greene

“And how is Uncle Edward? or is he dead? I've reached the time of life when relatives die unnoticed.”

— Graham Greene

“She had always called me ‘you.’ ‘Is that you?’ on the telephone, ‘Can you? Will you? Do you?’ so that I imagined,…

— Graham Greene

“I am now in my twenty-second year and yet the only birthday which I can clearly distinguish among all the rest is…

— Graham Greene

“It was a city to visit, not a city to live in, but it was the city where Wormold had first fallen…

— Graham Greene

Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that…

— Graham Greene

“If they think you admire them, they will admire you because of your good taste, and when they admire you, you have…

— Graham Greene

“In five hundred years' time, to the historian writing the Decline and Fall of the British Empire, this little episode would not…

— Graham Greene

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in...We should be thankful we cannot see…

— Graham Greene

“If they think you admire them, they will admire you because of your good taste, and when they admire you, you have…

— Graham Greene

“She had an immense store of trivial memories and when she wasn't living in the future she was living in the past.…

— Graham Greene

“Men can become twins with age. The past was their common womb; the six months of rain and the six months of…

— Graham Greene

“He had opened the book at random several times, seeking a sortes Virgilianae, before he chose the sentences on which his code…

— Graham Greene

“A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment from which to look back or from which to look…

— Graham Greene

“That was the worst period of all: it is my profession to imagine, to think in images: fifty times through the day,…

— Graham Greene

“I hated her because I wished to think she didn’t love me: I wanted to get her out of my system. What…

— Graham Greene

“Perhaps it is only in childhood that books have any deep influence on our lives. In later life we admire, we are…

— Graham Greene

“We most of us hesitate to make so complete a statement - we remember and we foresee and we doubt. She had…

— Graham Greene

“...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

Who knows whether there may not be a moment in childhood when the world changes forever, like making a face when the…

— Graham Greene

“For a moment I had felt elation as on the instant of waking before one remembers.”

— Graham Greene

“But my love had no intentions: it knew the future. All one could do was try to make the future less hard,…

— Graham Greene

“There is a time in life when a man with a little acting ability is able to deceive even himself.”

— Graham Greene

“The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than…

— Graham Greene

There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he…

— Graham Greene

“Poverty is apt to strike suddenly like influenza, it is well to have a few memories of extravagance in store for bad…

— Graham Greene

So much of life [is] a putting-off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing [is] ever lost by delay.

— Graham Greene

Death never mattered at those times - in the early days I even used to pray for it: the shattering annihilation that…

— Graham Greene