717 Quotes by Graham Greene

There was a tacit understanding between them that ‘liquor helped’; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.

You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other...

We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.

He was filled with horror at the thought of what a child becomes, and what the dead must feel watching the change from innocence to guilt and powerless to stop it.

Feeling her against me, I was reminded of desire. Would that always be the case now – not desire, but only the reminder of it?

My second wife – I was still young then – she left me, and I made the mistake of winning her back. It took me years to lose her again after that. She was a good woman. It is not easy to lose a good woman. If one must marry it is better to marry a bad woman.

But if I start believing that, then I have to believe in your God. I’d have to love your God. I’d rather love the men you slept with.

How strange too and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one’s presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another’s day.

To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor – the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.