717 Quotes by Graham Greene

There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.

Ante mí desfilaban imágenes de praderas que se extendían hasta el agua, de viejos castillos sobre colinas surcadas de viñedos y chicas en bicicleta. Todo parecía limpio, ordenado, seguro, como había sido mi propia vida antes del funeral de mi madre. Recordé mi jardín. Echaba de menos mis dalias.

Hatred is a failure of imagination.' Graham Greene, 'The Power and the Glory'.

What are others worth that they have the nerve to sneer at any human being?

Neither of us mentioned him when we woke on the morning after his death...One is not jealous of the dead, and it seemed easy to me that morning to take up our old life together.

Suddenly watching her feet, so light and precise and mistress of his shuffle, I was in love again.

One always spoke of her like that in the third person as though she were not there. Sometimes she seemed invisible like peace.

If you live in a place for long you cease to read about it.

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.