Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
GRAHAM GREENEPoint me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
GRAHAM GREENEHe was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
GRAHAM GREENEAn autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
GRAHAM GREENEThere’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
GRAHAM GREENEDestruction after all is a form of creation.
GRAHAM GREENEYou needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
GRAHAM GREENEThe next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
GRAHAM GREENESometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.
GRAHAM GREENEPeople who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
GRAHAM GREENEDeath will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
GRAHAM GREENEIn our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
GRAHAM GREENEMedia is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
GRAHAM GREENEI had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
GRAHAM GREENEThere is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
GRAHAM GREENEI can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
GRAHAM GREENEIt is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
GRAHAM GREENE