717 Quotes by Graham Greene

As long as nothing happens anything is possible.

In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

I slipped a bullet into a chamber and, holding the revolver behind my back, spun the chambers [cylinders] round... I put the muzzle... into my right ear and pulled the trigger. There was a minute click, and looking down at the chamber I could see that the charge [the bullet] had moved into the firing position.

What do we ever get nowadays from reading to equal the excitement and revelation in those first fourteen years?

You can't blame the innocent; they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them.

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed. That is the meaning of evolution.