I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
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 GREENEPoint me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
GRAHAM GREENETo be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor – the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.
GRAHAM GREENEPolitics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
GRAHAM GREENEInnocence is a kind of insanity.
GRAHAM GREENEIt is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
GRAHAM GREENEHate is a lack of imagination.
GRAHAM GREENEYou needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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 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 GREENEWe are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
GRAHAM GREENEAll good novelists have bad memories.
GRAHAM GREENEWe forget very easily what gives us pain.
GRAHAM GREENEAs long as one suffers one lives.
GRAHAM GREENEThere’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
GRAHAM GREENE