717 Quotes by Graham Greene

It's a good world if you don't weaken.

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

You cannot control what you love--you watch it driving recklessly towards the broken bridge, the torn-up track, the horror of seventy years ahead.

My passion for Sarah had killed simple lust forever. Never again would I be able to enjoy a woman without love.

Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

It infuriated him to think that there were still people in the state who believed in a loving and merciful God. There are mystics who are said to have experienced God directly. He was a mystic, too, and what he had experienced was vacancy--a complete certainty in the existence of a dying, cooling world, of human beings who had evolved from animals for no purpose at all.

Cruel men cry easily at the cinema.

Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!