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

When we are not sure, we are alive.

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

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 At the end of a war all our portraits are out of date: the timid man had been given a gun to slay with, and the brave man had found is nerve fail him in the barrage.

Whims so often end in bankruptcy.

Sweat cleaned you as effectively as water. But this was the race which had invented the proverb that cleanliness was next to godliness - cleanliness, not purity.

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

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