I could have waited years, now that I knew the end of the story. I was cold and wet and very happy.… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
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
When I replied that I loved her too in that way, I was the liar, not she, for I never lose the… — 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
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
Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Oh, she doesn't belong to anybody now,' he said, and suddenly I saw her for what she was - a piece of… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
You cannot control what you love--you watch it driving recklessly towards the broken bridge, the torn-up track, the horror of seventy years… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness.… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“With a novel, which takes perhaps years to write, the author is not the same man he was at the end 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 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
