Quotes from Graham Greene

Most things disappoint till you look deeper.

And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.

She had an immense store of trivial memories and when she wasn't living in the future she was living in the past. As for the present—she got through that as quickly as she could, running away from things, running towards things, so that her voice was always a little breathless, her heart pounding at an escape or an expectation.

and the Creole houses were invisible behind the rain.

I'm sick with life, I'm rotten with health.

Whims so often end in bankruptcy.

When we are not sure, we are alive.

five years work many changes. At the end of a war all our portraits are out of date: the timid man had been given a gun to slay with, and the brave man had found is nerve fail him in the barrage.

I'm tired and I'm sick to death of being without you.

Like some wines, our love could neither mature nor travel.

Maybe I'm growing up, Thomas'. But there were tears in his voice, and he looked younger than he had ever done.

He never listened while his wife talked.