Graham Greene Quotes

Thrillers are like life—more like life than you are … it’s what we’ve all made of the world.

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

Why, after all, should we expect God to punish the innocent with more life?

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.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

I suppose the love of life which periodically deserts most men was returning: like sexual desire, it moves in cycles.

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.

The old lady knelt, saying her 'Hail Mary'; She didn't believe — but among Catholics even the sceptical are courteous.

Its typical of Mexico, of the whole human race perhaps — violence in favour of an ideal and then the ideal lost but the violence just going on.

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

[Cubitt hurling insults at Pinky after he refuses to lend him money] The picture Cubitt drew had got nothing to do with him: it was like the pictures men drew of Christ, the image of their own sentimentality. ...He was like a professor describing to a stranger some place he had only read in books:...when all the time it was a country the stranger knew...

"People talk," Ida Arnold said. "People talk all the time."

He knew everything in theory, nothing in practice... He knew the moves, he'd never played the game.

Life was a series of complicated tactical exercises ...

...he knew there wasn't a soul in the mob he could trust – except perhaps Dallow. That didn't matter. You couldn't make mistakes when you trusted nobody.