Graham Greene

“Time gives poetry to a battlefield...”

— Graham Greene

“What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom.”

— Graham Greene

Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.

— Graham Greene

Hate is a lack of imagination.

— Graham Greene

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it…

— Graham Greene

“Knowledge was the great thing--not abstract knowledge in which Dr. Forester had been so rich, the theories which lead one enticingly on…

— Graham Greene

With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You…

— Graham Greene

Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.

— Graham Greene

“He had thought that home was something one possessed, but the things one had possessed were cursed with change; it was what…

— Graham Greene

Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved.

— Graham Greene

“He said, ‘Oh god, help her. Damn me, I deserve it, but let her live forever.’ This was the love he should…

— Graham Greene

“A police photograph is like a passport photograph: the intelligence which casts a veil over the crude common shape is never recorded…

— Graham Greene

“I tossed up whether I'd see [the critic] or not: I knew too well the pompous phrases of his article, the buried…

— Graham Greene

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

— Graham Greene

“But we do not love people for what they do for us. Love happens to us; it isn't created.”

— Graham Greene

Perhaps the sexual life is the great test. If we can survive it with charity to those we love and with affection…

— Graham Greene

“In the vision there is no morality”

— 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

“What do we ever get nowadays from reading to equal the excitement and the revelation in those first fourteen years?”

— Graham Greene

So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.

— Graham Greene

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to…

— Graham Greene

“But if I start believing that, then I have to believe in your God. I'd have to love your God. I'd rather…

— Graham Greene

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to…

— Graham Greene

It infuriated him to think that there were still people in the state who believed in a loving and merciful God. There…

— 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