Quotes By Graham Greene

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

A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.

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

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.

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.