717 Quotes by Graham Greene

You think you are so bad,' she said, 'but it was only because you couldn't bear the pain. But "they" can bear pain - other people's pain - endlessly. They are the people who don't care.

He wasn't a patient. I expect someone cured him. You cure a lot of people in this country, don't you, with bullets?

Like Johns, I am one of the little men, not interested in ideologies, tied to a flat Cambridgeshire landscape, a chalk quarry, a line of willows across the featureless fields, a market town--his thoughts scrabbled at the curtain--where he used to dance at the Saturday hops.

After all, he liked me. That was a claim he could never fail to honour because it astonished him.

I remember I dreamed a lot of Sarah in those obscure days or weeks. Sometimes I would wake with a sense of pain, sometimes with pleasure. If a woman is in one's thoughts all day, one should not have to dream of her at night.

We are fools when we love. I was terrified of losing her. I thought I saw her changing--I don't know if she really was, but I couldn't bear the uncertainty any longer. I ran toward the finish just like a coward runs toward the enemy and wins a medal. I wanted to get death over.

No wine can be regarded as unimportant, my friend, since the marriage at Cana.

She was the hiss of steam, the clink of a cup, she was a certain hour of the night and the promise of rest.

He had stylized himself--life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form.