I aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
GRAHAM GREENEI aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
GRAHAM GREENEGod save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
GRAHAM GREENEOur worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
GRAHAM GREENEPolitics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
GRAHAM GREENEEternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
GRAHAM GREENEShe mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
GRAHAM GREENEIt’s a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.
GRAHAM GREENEPity is cruel. Pity destroys.
GRAHAM GREENEThere’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
GRAHAM GREENEInnocence is a kind of insanity.
GRAHAM GREENEIt was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.
GRAHAM GREENEChampagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
GRAHAM GREENEFriendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
GRAHAM GREENEPeople who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
GRAHAM GREENEIt is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
GRAHAM GREENEBeauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
GRAHAM GREENE