717 Quotes by Graham Greene

One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.

So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days.

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.

In the taxi I let my hand lie on her leg like a promise, but I had no intention of keeping my promise.

I could never have been a pacifist. To kill a man was surely to grant him an immeasurable benefit. Oh yes, people always, everywhere, loved their enemies. It was their friends they preserved for pain and vacuity.

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.

If two people loved, they slept together; it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience.