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 Quote

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
- Graham Greene Quote

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 Quote

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
- Graham Greene Quote

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

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

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 Quote

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 Quote

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
- Graham Greene Quote

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
- Graham Greene Quote

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
- Graham Greene Quote

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
- Graham Greene Quote

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.
- Graham Greene Quote

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 Quote

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

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 Quote

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
- Graham Greene Quote

The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him.
- Graham Greene Quote

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

The world is not black and white. More like black and grey.
- Graham Greene Quote

They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.
- Graham Greene Quote

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

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 Quote

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

When we are not sure, we are alive.
- Graham Greene Quote