Famous Graham Greene Quotes

  • Opium makes you quick-witted – perhaps only because it calms the nerves and stills the emotions. Nothing, not even death, seems so important. – Graham Greene

    Opium makes you quick-witted – perhaps only because it calms the nerves and stills the emotions. Nothing, not even death, seems so important.– Graham Greene

  • I had seen the flowers on her dress beside the canals in the north, she was indigenous like a herb, and I never wanted to go home. – Graham Greene

    I had seen the flowers on her dress beside the canals in the north, she was indigenous like a herb, and I never wanted to go home.– Graham Greene

  • I have no talent; it’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time. – Graham Greene

    I have no talent; it’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.– Graham Greene

  • Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim – Graham Greene

    Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim– Graham Greene

  • He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance. – Graham Greene

    He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.– Graham Greene

  • I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused. – Graham Greene

    I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.– Graham Greene

  • One can’t reason away regret-it’s a bit like falling in love, falling into regret. – Graham Greene

    One can’t reason away regret-it’s a bit like falling in love, falling into regret.– Graham Greene

  • Death was far more certain than God. – Graham Greene

    Death was far more certain than God.– Graham Greene

  • There is an old legend that somewhere in the world every man has his double. – Graham Greene

    There is an old legend that somewhere in the world every man has his double.– Graham Greene

  • For writers it is always said that the first twenty years of life contain the whole of experience -“ the rest is observation – Graham Greene

    For writers it is always said that the first twenty years of life contain the whole of experience -“ the rest is observation– Graham Greene