Graham Greene

Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

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

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.