717 Quotes by Graham Greene

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.

Of course, before we know he is a saint, there will have to be miracles.

Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?

Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate.

For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.

So much of a novelist's writing, as I have said, takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is written before the first word appears on the paper. We remember details of our story, we do not invent them.

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed -- that is the meaning of evolution.

Lust is not the worst thing. It is because any day, any time, lust may turn into love that we have to avoid it. And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.

One never knows enough about characters in real life to put them into novels. One gets started and then, suddenly, one can not remember what toothpaste they use; what are their views on interior decoration, and one is stuck utterly. No, major characters emerge; minor ones may be photographed.