Best Graham Greene Quotations
- There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief. Alcohol
- Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no… Always Cold
- I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing. Fear
- In the taxi I let my hand lie on her leg like a promise, but I had no intention of keeping my promise. Hand
- If two people loved, they slept together; it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience. Experience
- I could have waited years, now that I knew the end of the story. I was cold and wet and very happy. I could even… Altar
- 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 You… Existed
- In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey. Always Seems
- I want men to admire me, but that's a trick you learn at school--a movement of the eyes, a tone of voice, a touch of… Admire
- Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel; sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. Better
- I couldn't help wondering, is my husband so unattractive that no woman has ever wanted him? Except me, of course. I must have wanted him,… Choosing
- And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If I could I… Another Man
- Hate is a lack of imagination. Acceptance
- Sometimes I get tired of trying to convince him that I love him and shall love him for ever. He pounces on my words like… Afraid
- I’m not at peace anymore. I just want him like I used to in the old days. I want to be eating sandwiches with him.… Another Time
- When I began to write our story down, I thought I was writing a record of hate, but somehow the hate has got mislaid and… All
- Perhaps the sexual life is the great test. If we can survive it with charity to those we love and with affection to those we… Affection
- A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead. Ahead
- People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations Generalization
- All the emotions have something in common. People are quite aware of the sorrow there always is in lust, but they are not so aware… All
- What an unbearable creature he must have been in those days--and yet in those days he had been comparatively innocent. That was another mystery: it… All
- We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love… All
- So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and chance conversations, but… Ahead
- Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too. Bitterness
- How often the priest had heard the same confession--Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity to invent a new vice: the animals knew… Animal
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