Quotes from book
The Honorary Consul

Name: The Honorary Consul
Author: Graham Greene

The Honorary Consul is a British thriller novel by Graham Greene, published in 1973. It was one of the author's own favourite works. The title is a reference to the diplomatic position known as an honorary consul.

“It was not the kind of surroundings in which any one with free will — if such a man existed — would have chosen to await death.”

Graham Greene book The Honorary Consul

The Honorary Consul (1973)

“Simplicity belonged by right to those who were native-born, those who could take the conditions of life, however bizarre, for granted.”

Graham Greene book The Honorary Consul

The Honorary Consul (1973)

“It was an evening which, by some mysterious combination of failing light and the smell of an unrecognised plant, brings back to some men the sense of childhood and of future hope and to others the sense of something which has been lost and almost forgotten.”

Graham Greene book The Honorary Consul

The Honorary Consul (1973)

“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.”

Graham Greene book The Honorary Consul

The Honorary Consul (1973)

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