Quotes from book

The Lawless Roads

“The old lady knelt, saying her 'Hail Mary'; She didn't believe — but among Catholics even the sceptical are courteous.”

Graham Greene book The Lawless Roads

The Lawless Roads (1939)

“Perhaps his laughter saved them — it must be difficult to shoot a laughing man: you have to feel important to kill.”

Graham Greene book The Lawless Roads

The Lawless Roads (1939)

“I suppose the love of life which periodically deserts most men was returning: like sexual desire, it moves in cycles.”

Graham Greene book The Lawless Roads

The Lawless Roads (1939)

“Its typical of Mexico, of the whole human race perhaps — violence in favour of an ideal and then the ideal lost but the violence just going on.”

Graham Greene book The Lawless Roads

The Lawless Roads (1939)

“But the great moment was over — here in Orizaba it was like Galilee between the Crucifixion and the Resurrection — all the enthusiasm had been spent.”

Graham Greene book The Lawless Roads

The Lawless Roads (1939)