717 Quotes by Graham Greene

To comfort me is like the wrong memory at the wrong place or time: if one is lonely one prefers discomfort.

Self-expression is a hard and selfish thing. It eats everything, even the self. At the end you find you haven't even got a self to express.

They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.

I'm only saying I want you to be happy. I hate your being unhappy. I don't mind anything you do that makes you happy." You just want an excuse. If I sleep with anybody else, you feel you can do the same - any time." That's neither here nor there. I want you to be happy, that's all." You'd make my bed for me?" Perhaps.

A writer doesn't write for his readers, does he? Yet he has to take elementary precautions all the same, to make them comfortable.

It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

All good novelists have bad memories.

If I had to choose between life in the Soviet Union and life in the U. S. A. , I would certainly choose the Soviet Union.