“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)
“The hands of the guilty don't necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.” Graham Greene book The Third Man The Third Man (1949)
“No danger anywhere, it seemed to Rollo Martins of that sudden reckless moment when the scent of hair or a hand against the side alters life.” Graham Greene book The Third Man The Third Man (1949)
“In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace - and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.” Graham Greene book The Third Man The Third Man (1949)
