Quotes from Graham Greene

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.

The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn.

I had very good dentures once. Some magnificent gold work. It's the only form of jewelry a man can wear that women fully appreciate.

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.

So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.

I aim to be content with what I produce. It's an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.

The argument of danger only applies to those who live in relative safety.

Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

I'm tired and I'm sick to death of being without you.

Failure too is a form of death.

Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.

In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil or else an absolute ignorance.

Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Like some wines, our love could neither mature nor travel.

One of the things which danger does to you after a time is -, well, to kill emotion. I don't think I shall ever feel anything again except fear. None of us can hate anymore - or love.