717 Quotes by Graham Greene

I had very good dentures once. Some magnificent gold work. It's the only form of jewelry a man can wear that women fully appreciate.

Lies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends.

I aim to be content with what I produce. It's an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.

Communism, my friend, is more than Marxism, just as Catholicism is more than the Roman Curia. There is a mystique as well as a politick. 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.

Destruction after all is a form of creation.

Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.

At one with the One, it didn't mean a thing besides a glass of Guinness on a sunny day.

The border means more than a customs house, a passport officer, a man with a gun. Over there everything is going to be different; life is never going to be quite the same again after your passport has been stamped.

Sooner or later...one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.