Graham Greene Quotes

A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.
Graham Greene

Good, Himself, Almost

A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.
Graham Greene

Laugh, Often, Solitary

Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
Graham Greene

War, Beautiful, Successful

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution.
Graham Greene

God, Meaning, Number

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

Loyalty, Sense, Felt

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.
Graham Greene

Woman, Away, Often

If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?
Graham Greene

Faith, Same, Another

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.
Graham Greene

Men, Courage, Person

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
Graham Greene

Reality, Century, Faced

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

Call, Share, Sentiment

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.
Graham Greene

Away, Might, Turn

The world doesn't make any heroes anymore.
Graham Greene

Anymore, Heroes

Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.
Graham Greene

Life, Thrillers

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.
Graham Greene

End, Dark, Child

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
Graham Greene

Life, Death, Resigned

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Playwright

Born: October 2, 1904

Died: April 3, 1991

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