Graham Greene Quotes

[About Pinkie's inability to empathise] The imagination hadn't awoken. That was his strength. He couldn't see through other people's eyes, or feel with their nerves. Only the music made him uneasy.

You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?

But the great moment was over — here in Orizaba it was like Galilee between the Crucifixion and the Resurrection — all the enthusiasm had been spent.

Perhaps his laughter saved them — it must be difficult to shoot a laughing man: you have to feel important to kill.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.

[Ida] "...It's a good world if you don't weaken."

He’ll always be innocent, you can’t blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

When you visualized a man or woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity— that was a quality God's image carried with it.

Man is made by the places in which he lives...