Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
GRAHAM GREENEPity is cruel. Pity destroys.
GRAHAM GREENEWould the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
GRAHAM GREENEThey are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
GRAHAM GREENEIt is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
GRAHAM GREENEHe was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
GRAHAM GREENEThere was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
GRAHAM GREENEIt is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
GRAHAM GREENEThere’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
GRAHAM GREENEHe entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
GRAHAM GREENEAs long as nothing happens anything is possible.
GRAHAM GREENESooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
GRAHAM GREENEWe never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
GRAHAM GREENEDespair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
GRAHAM GREENEAgainst the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
GRAHAM GREENEWhen we are not sure, we are alive.
GRAHAM GREENEThere is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
GRAHAM GREENE