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“If two people loved, they slept together; it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience.”

Graham Greene book The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

“Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.”

Graham Greene book The Power and the Glory

Source: The Power and the Glory

“A man kept his character even when he was insane.”

Graham Greene book The Ministry of Fear

Source: The Ministry of Fear

“You cannot love without intuition.”

Graham Greene book The Quiet American

Source: The Quiet American

“What happens if you drop all the things that make you I?”

Graham Greene book The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

“If I stopped loving Him, I would cease to believe in His love. If I loved God, then I would believe in His love for me. It's not enough to need it. We have to love first, and I don't know how. But I need it, how I need it.”

“Never presume yours is a better morality.”

“How strange too and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day.”

Graham Greene book The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

“I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.”

Graham Greene book The Quiet American

Source: The Quiet American

“Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.”

Graham Greene book The Ministry of Fear

Source: The Ministry of Fear

“He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by delay. He had a dim idea that perhaps if one delayed long enough, things were taken out of one's hands altogether by death.”

Graham Greene book The Heart of the Matter

Source: The Heart of the Matter

“He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.”

Source: Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party

“He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.”

Graham Greene book The Quiet American

Source: The Quiet American

“We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us — Martins felt the little jab of dispensability.”

Graham Greene book The Third Man

Source: The Third Man (1949)

“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.”

Graham Greene book The Heart of the Matter

Source: The Heart of the Matter

“A brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and it couldn't conceive what it had never experienced”

Graham Greene book Brighton Rock

Source: Brighton Rock

“God save us always," I said, "from the innocent and the good.”

Graham Greene book The Quiet American

Pt. I, ch. 1, pg 15
Source: The Quiet American (1955)

“I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.”

Graham Greene book The Power and the Glory

Source: The Power and the Glory

“Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.”

Graham Greene book The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

“It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.”

Graham Greene book The Ministry of Fear

Source: The Ministry of Fear