Book Quote by 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 is a…

— 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 with their…

— 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 as though…

— 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 one didn't…

— 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 have felt…

— Graham Greene

“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