Graham Greene

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.