717 Quotes by Graham Greene

She was his like a table or a chair, but a table owned you, too – by your fingerprints.

One can go back to one’s own home after a year’s absence and immediately the door closes it is as if one had never been away. Or one can go back after a few hours and everything is so changed that one is a stranger.

If I had to choose between life in the Soviet Union and life in the U. S. A., I would certainly choose the Soviet Union.

Henry was living in a terrible insecurity. To that extent his plight was worse than mine. I had the security of possessing nothing.

You are lovely, brilliant, witty... the incredible words which would relieve her of any need to repay him or refuse his gifts; loveliness and wit were priced higher than any gift he offered, while if a girl were loved, even old women of hard experience would admit her right to take and never give.

An autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.

It’s easier to get over a thing” Scobie said, “if you talk about it.

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

When you have a child you are condemned to be a father for life. They go away from you. You can’t go away from them.