717 Quotes by Graham Greene

...to each man a city consists of no more than a few streets, a few houses, a few people. Remove those few and a city exists no longer except as a pain in the memory...

So much of a novelist’s writing … takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is written before the word appears on paper. We remember the details of our story, we do not invent them.

The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being- it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. I human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Beware of formulas. If there's a God, he's not a God of formulas.

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 value and is thrown away.

Age, Henry, may a little modify our emotions— it does not destroy them.

It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much.

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim

He said, 'You don't have to make conversation with me.''My husband says that I am too silent.''Silence is not a bad thing.''It is when you are unhappy.