Quotes by Graham Greene, The Quiet American

Explore a curated collection of 26 quotes by Graham Greene, The Quiet American. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at nig — Graham Greene, The Quiet American
Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, accepting th — Graham Greene, The Quiet American
Wouldn't we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, — Graham Greene, The Quiet American
Perhaps to the soldier the civilian is the man who employs him to kill, who includes the guilt of murder in the pay-enve — Graham Greene, The Quiet American
So much of war is sitting around and doing nothing, waiting for somebody else. With no guarantee of the amount of time y — Graham Greene, The Quiet American
They killed him because he was too innocent to live. He was young and ignorant and silly and he got involved. He had no — Graham Greene, The Quiet American
Death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever. I envied those who co — Graham Greene, The Quiet American
They killed him because he was too innocent to live. — Graham Greene, The Quiet American
It was a superstition among them that a lover who smoked would always return, even from France. A man's sexual capacity — Graham Greene, The Quiet American
Neither of us mentioned him when we woke on the morning after his death...One is not jealous of the dead, and it seemed — Graham Greene, The Quiet American
Innocence always calls mutely or protection when we would be so much wise to guard ourselves against it: innocence is li — Graham Greene, The Quiet American
Suddenly watching her feet, so light and precise and mistress of his shuffle, I was in love again. — Graham Greene, The Quiet American
One always spoke of her like that in the third person as though she were not there. Sometimes she seemed invisible like — Graham Greene, The Quiet American
Even though my reason wanted the state of death, I was afraid like a virgin of the act. I would have liked death to come — Graham Greene, The Quiet American
Whew,' he said, 'I'm glad that's over, Thomas. I've been feeling awfully bad about it.' It was only too evident that he — Graham Greene, The Quiet American
A man becomes trustworthy when you trust him. — Graham Greene, The Quiet American
Suffering is not increased by numbers. One body can contain all the suffering the world can feel. — Graham Greene, The Quiet American
It takes a long time before we cease to feel proud of being wanted. Though God knows why we should feel it, when we look — Graham Greene, The Quiet American
Death was far more certain than God. — Graham Greene, The Quiet American
I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused. — Graham Greene, The Quiet American