717 Quotes by Graham Greene

Captain Segura squeezed out a smile. It seemed to come from the wrong place like toothpaste when the tube splits.

He looked around the church, at the altar, the tabernacle, the brass candles, and the European saints, pale like albinos in the dark continent.

He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.

There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared.

People don't demand that a thing be reasonable if their emotions are touched. Lovers aren't reasonable, are they?

In a crisis perhaps it is old clichés one clings to, like a child to a parent.

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 would write with love, but if I could write with love I would be another man; I would never have lost love.

I had seen the flowers on her dress beside the canals in the north, she was indigenous like a herb, and I never wanted to go home.

It was a superstition among them that a lover who smoked would always return, even from France. A man's sexual capacity might be injured by smoking, but they would always prefer a faithful to a potent lover.