717 Quotes by Graham Greene

They can print statistics and count the populations in hundreds of thousands, but to each man a city consists of no more than a few streets, a few houses, a few people. Remove those few and a city exists no longer except as a pain in the memory, like a pain of an amputated leg no longer there.

Cynicism is cheap - you can buy it at any Monoprix store - it's built into all poor-quality goods.

When he was young, he had thought love had something to do with understanding, but with age he knew that no human being understood another. Love was the wish to understand, and presently with constant failure the wish died, and love died too perhaps or changed into this painful affection, loyalty, pity…

Any man who knocks on the door of a brothel is looking for God.

Like the characters in Chekhov, they have no reserves -– you learn the most intimate secrets. You get an impression of a world peopled by eccentrics, of odd professions, almost incredible stupidities, and, to balance them, amazing endurances.

I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.

We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.

The trouble is I don't believe my unbelief.

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.