717 Quotes by Graham Greene

The old women gossiped as they always had done, squatting on the floor outside the urinoir, carrying Fate in the lines of their faces as others on the palm.

Somebody always leaves a banana-skin on the scene of tragedy.

D. felt a little envious of him as he stood there in the yard among the cars – he looked established. Five hundred years of inbreeding had produced him, set him against an exact background, made him at home, and at the same a time haunted – by the vices of ancestors and the tastes of the past.

Eternitatea nu este o prelungire a timpului ci o absenta a lui.

It’s strange how the human mind swings back and forth, from one extreme to another. Does truth lie at some point of the pendulum’s swing, at a point where it never rests, not in the dull perpendicular mean where it dangles in the end like a windless flag, but at an angle, nearer one extreme than another? If only a miracle could stop the pendulum at an angle of sixty degrees, one would believe the truth was there.

There is a time in life when a man with a little acting ability is able to deceive even himself.

Regret your own actions, if you like that kind of wallowing in self-pity, but never, never despise. Never presume yours is a better morality.

In the act of creation there is always, it seems, an awful selfishness.

People don’t demand that a thing be reasonable if their emotions are touched. Lovers aren’t reasonable, are they?