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 GREENEIt is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
GRAHAM GREENEReality in our century is not something to be faced.
GRAHAM GREENEWe never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
GRAHAM GREENEOne can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
GRAHAM GREENEIn a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
GRAHAM GREENEWhen we are not sure, we are alive.
GRAHAM GREENEThere was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
GRAHAM GREENEHer face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.
GRAHAM GREENEAll good novelists have bad memories.
GRAHAM GREENEEvery monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
GRAHAM GREENEDespair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
GRAHAM GREENESooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
GRAHAM GREENEI had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
GRAHAM GREENEThe truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
GRAHAM GREENEFriendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
GRAHAM GREENE