Graham Greene quotes - page 6

Graham Greene was an acclaimed English novelist, playwright, and journalist recognized for his explorations of moral and political issues. His works often blend elements of suspense and psychological depth within complex international settings. He became one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, with novels such as "The Power and the Glory" and "The Quiet American." Here are 200 of his quotes:

Oh well, perhaps when you're my age you'll know the heart is an untrustworthy beast.The mind too,but it doesn't talk about love.

Graham Greene

A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.

Graham Greene

The world was in her heart already, like the small spot of decay in a fruit.

Graham Greene

Failure too is a form of death.

Graham Greene

Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing.

Graham Greene

The world doesn't make any heroes anymore.

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

Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.

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love had turned into "love affair" with a begining and an end.

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She had lost all our memories for ever, and it was as though by dying she had robbed me of part of myself. I was losing my individuality. It was the first stage of my own death, the memories dropping off like gangrened limbs.

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I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that standard of course she could not love me at all.

Graham Greene

I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.

Graham Greene

I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil.

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I'm tired and I'm sick to death of being without you.

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Suffering is not increased by numbers. One body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.

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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.

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Life was a series of complicated tactical exercises ...

Graham Greene

Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel: sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.

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He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.

Graham Greene

We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us - Martins felt the little jab of dispensability.

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It was not the kind of surroundings in which any one with free will - if such a man existed - would have chosen to await death.

Graham Greene

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

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