Freedom, I thought, comes only to the successful

— Graham Greene

Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.

— Graham Greene

Fun... human nature... does no one any harm... Regular as clockwork the old excuses came back into the alert, sad and dissatisfied brain--nothing ever matched the deep excitement of the regular desire. Men always failed you when it came to the act. She might just as well have been to the pictures.

— Graham Greene

Had a couple of drinks by myself. It was a mistake. Have I got to give up drinking, too? If I eliminate everything, how will I exist? I was somebody who loved Maurice and went with men and enjoyed my drinks. What happens if you drop all the things that make you I?

— Graham Greene

Hate is a lack of imagination.

— Graham Greene

Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.

— Graham Greene

Hatred seems to operate on the same glands as love it even produces the same actions. If we had not been taught how to interpret the story of the Passion would we have been able to say from their actions alone whether it was the jealous Judas or the cowardly Peter who loved Christ?

— Graham Greene

Hatred seems to work on the same glands as love: it even produces the same actions. If we had not been taught how to interpret the story of the Passion, would we have been able to say from their actions alone whether it was the jealous Judas or the cowardly Peter who loved Christ?

— Graham Greene

He began to realize what the criminal class knows so well, the impossibility of explaining anything to a man with power.

— Graham Greene

He couldn't tell that this was one of those occasions a man never forgets: a small cicatrices had been made on the memory, a wound that would ache whenever certain things combined - the taste of gin at midday, the smell of flowers under a balcony, the clang of corrugated iron, an ugly bird flopping from perch to perch.

— Graham Greene