Quotes from Graham Greene

He will not stoop to the mediaeval superstition of 'Good-bye'.

Quotes are for people who like broad generalizations

Indeed I have a great fellow feeling for rats. The future of the world lies with the rat. God

I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy

In onze jeugd zijn alle boeken toekomstvoorspellingen.

The maximum of terror for the minimum time directed against the fewest objects.

HE SAID TO Beatrice, 'I was just leaning forward to switch on the engine. That saved me, I imagine. Of course it was his right to fire back. It was a real duel, but the third shot was mine.' 'What happened afterwards?' 'I had time to drive away before I was sick.' 'Sick?' 'I suppose if I hadn't missed the war it would have seemed much less serious a thing killing a man. Poor Carter.' 'Why should you

Not many men can have been so loved or have been forgiven so much [...]

There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.

I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.

I measured love by the extent of my jealousy.

Lust is not the worst thing. It is because any day, any time, lust may turn into love that we have to avoid it. And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor.

You needn't be so scared. Love doesn't end. Just because we don't see each other.

In 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.

You cannot love without intuition.

I've caught belief like a disease. I've fallen into belief like I fell in love.

Oh well, perhaps when you're my age you'll know the heart is an untrustworthy beast.The mind too,but it doesn't talk about love.

love had turned into "love affair" with a begining and an end.

And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.

Love taught me that your honour did but jest.

One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain at second hand.

They are always saying God loves us. If thats love Id rather have a bit of kindness.