Graham Greene (1904-1991)

Quotes

• People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations.

• We’d forgive most things if we knew the facts.

• There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

• Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.

• 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.

• They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn't name its price. A man open to bribes was to be relied upon below a certain figure, but sentiment might uncoil in the heart at a name, a photograph, even a smell remembered.

• Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.

• It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.