Quotes from Graham Greene
I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different
- Graham Greene
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations
- Graham Greene
I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.
- Graham Greene
I'm tired and I'm sick to death of being without you.
- Graham Greene
I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings.
- Graham Greene
It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much.
- Graham Greene
Indifference and pride look very much alike, and he probably thought I was proud.
- Graham Greene
Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
- Graham Greene
And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.
- Graham Greene
And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If I could I would write with love, but if I could write with love I would be another man; I would never have lost love.
- Graham Greene
We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.
- Graham Greene
From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next year...death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever.
- Graham Greene