Graham Greene Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Graham Greene
Graham Greene Famous Quotes & Sayings
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My passion for Sarah had killed simple lust forever. Never again would I be able to enjoy a woman without love.
He put his mouth on her and kissed her on the cheek; he was afraid of the mouth-thoughts travel too easily from lip to lip.
Self-expression is a hard and selfish thing. It eats everything, even the self. At the end you find you haven't even got a self to express.
The subject of a novel is not the plot. Who remembers what happened to Lucien de Rebempre in the end?
It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much.
Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor.
He had stylized himself
life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form.
life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form.
But my love had no intentions: it knew the future. All one could do was try to make the future less hard, to break the future gently when it came.
A brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and it couldn't conceive what it had never experienced
One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
His lips felt dry with a literal thirst for righteousness, which was like a glass of ice-cold water on a table in another man's room.
The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than any religious teaching.
Do you like dogs?'
'No.'
'I thought the British were great dog-lovers.'
'We think Americans love dollars, but there must be exceptions.
'No.'
'I thought the British were great dog-lovers.'
'We think Americans love dollars, but there must be exceptions.
Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.
Oh, and there was pride, of course. It takes a long time before we cease to feel proud of being wanted.
No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain.
Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too.
She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom
shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy.
shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy.
I doubt if ever one ceases to love, but one can cease to be in love as easily as one can outgrow an author one admired as a boy.
She thought for the first time, with happiness: perhaps I have a life in people's minds when I am not there to be seen or talked to.
Oh well, perhaps when you're my age you'll know the heart is an untrustworthy beast.The mind too,but it doesn't talk about love.
Marlowe's devils wore squibs attached to their tails: evil was like Peter Pan - it carried with it the horrifying and horrible gift of eternal youth.
But if I start believing that, then I have to believe in your God. I'd have to love your God. I'd rather love the men you slept with.
If I had to choose between life in the Soviet Union and life in the U. S. A. , I would certainly choose the Soviet Union.
It is the storyteller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.
You cannot control what you love
you watch it driving recklessly towards the broken bridge, the torn-up track, the horror of seventy years ahead.
you watch it driving recklessly towards the broken bridge, the torn-up track, the horror of seventy years ahead.
I like to change my clothes as little as possible. I suppose some people would say the same of my ideas, the bank had taught me to be wary of whims.
He wasn't a patient. I expect someone cured him. You cure a lot of people in this country, don't you, with bullets?
There's nothing discreditable about jealousy, Mr Bendrix. I always salute it as the mark of true love.
Pain is easy to write. In pain we're all happily individual. But what can one write about happiness?