717 Quotes by Graham Greene

So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.

I couldn't have thought of her more. Even vacancy was crowded with her.

We'd forgive most things if we knew the facts.

With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though You existed.

Men have prayed in prison, men have prayed in slums and concentration camps. It’s only the middle class who demand to pray in suitable surroundings.

For God’s sake stop making people in your image. Harry was real. He wasn’t just your hero and my lover. He was Harry. He was in a racket. He did bad things. What about it? He was the man we knew.

So much of war is sitting around and doing nothing, waiting for somebody else. With no guarantee of the amount of time you have left it doesn’t seem worth even starting a train of thought.

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.

What they had both thought was safety proved to have been the camouflage of an enemy who works in terms of friendship, trust and pity.