717 Quotes by Graham Greene

Terror was always just behind her shoulder: she was wasted by the effort of not turning round.

With goodness one can feel secure; why wasn’t I satisfied with goodness, why did I always ask her the wrong questions?

They think my mother’s ashes are marijuana.

So one always starts a journey in a strange land – taking too many precautions, until one tires of the exertion and abandons care in the worst spot of all.

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

You should dream more, Mr Wormold. Reality in our century is not something to be faced.’ 2.

Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.

The trouble is I don’t believe my unbelief.

It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.