717 Quotes by Graham Greene

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

You think you are so bad,′ she said, ‘but it was only because you couldn’t bear the pain. But “they” can bear pain – other people’s pain – endlessly. They are the people who don’t care.

But it wasn’t the small Ministry to which Johns had referred, with limited aims like winning a war or changing a constitution. It was a Ministry as large as life to which all who loved belonged. If one loved one feared.

There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn’t shared.

She loved him whatever that meant but love was not an eternal thing like hatred and disgust.

Perhaps it is freedom, of speech and conduct, which is really envied by the unsuccessful, not money or even power.

It’s a pity people pick and choose what they learn from the Bible.

It was a city to visit, not a city to live in, but it was the city where Wormold had first fallen in love and he was held to it as though to the scene of a disaster. Time gives poetry to a battlefield.

Pain is easy to write. In pain we’re all happily individual. But what can one write about happiness?