Quotes By Graham Greene

Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing.

The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn.

A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Failure too is a form of death.

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.

They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!