His question reminded me of how easy he had been to deceive, so easy that he seemed to me almost a conniver at his wife's unfaithfulness, as the man who leaves loose banknotes in a hotel bedroom connives at theft, and I hated him for the very quality which had once helped my love.


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I became aware that our love was doomed; love had turned into a love affair with a beginning and an ...
GRAHAM GREENE
I measured love by the extent of my jealousy.
GRAHAM GREENE
We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
GRAHAM GREENE
You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, te...
GRAHAM GREENE
Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.
GRAHAM GREENE
I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.
GRAHAM GREENE
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
GRAHAM GREENE
When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity . . . that was a...
GRAHAM GREENE
Why do we have this desire to tease the innocent? Is it envy?
GRAHAM GREENE
You should dream more, Mr. Wormold. Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
GRAHAM GREENE
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
GRAHAM GREENE
You put the small thief in prison, but the big thief lives in a palace.
GRAHAM GREENE
Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.
GRAHAM GREENE
What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?
GRAHAM GREENE
My second wife left me because she said I was too ambitious. She didn't realize that it is only the ...
GRAHAM GREENE
If I were writing a novel I would end it here: a novel, I used to think, has to end somewhere, but I...
GRAHAM GREENE
The dead of an army become automatically heroes like the dead of the Church become Martyrs.
GRAHAM GREENE
They think my mother's ashes are marijuana.
GRAHAM GREENE
Poverty is apt to strike suddenly like influenza, it is well to have a few memories of extravagance ...
GRAHAM GREENE
We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, s...
GRAHAM GREENE
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
GRAHAM
The main challenge that television presents is that I have a tendency to say things with a great dea...
BRIAN GREENE
No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.
BRIAN GREENE
The universe is incredibly wondrous, incredibly beautiful, and it fills me with a sense that there i...
BRIAN GREENE
Our eyes only see the big dimensions, but beyond those there are others that escape detection becaus...
BRIAN GREENE
Black holes, we all know, are these regions where if an object falls in, it can't get out, but t...
BRIAN GREENE
How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens ab...
BRIAN GREENE
Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true na...
BRIAN GREENE
I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science.
BRIAN GREENE
We're on this planet for the briefest of moments in cosmic terms, and I want to spend that time ...
BRIAN GREENE
There's a picture of my dorm room in the college yearbook as the most messy, most disgusting roo...
BRIAN GREENE
My mom says: 'Why aren't you a doctor?' and I'm like, 'I am a doctor!' and s...
BRIAN GREENE
I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and gl...
BRIAN GREENE
The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the ans...
BRIAN GREENE
The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics.
BRIAN GREENE
Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that infor...
BRIAN GREENE
String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loa...
BRIAN GREENE
I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that yo...
BRIAN GREENE
Being out at work in L.A. is the nicest place to be. You don't get depressed because of the sun ...
SARAH GREENE
I'm a bit of a workaholic. When I feel like I'm not doing something, it drives me insane.
ASHLEY GREENE
I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.
NANCY GREENE
If it's not 100 per cent pure maple syrup, it can't be called 'pure maple syrup.'
NANCY GREENE
Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
NANCY GREENE
I'm not from a maple producing area and so my maple syrup credentials are very much of the eatin...
NANCY GREENE
I've seen children's eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang.
BRIAN GREENE
We don't need to grow any more. It's not about the numbers at all. It's about the message of the Bib...
ALAN GREENE
There's lots of parking, plenty of parking, but people need to pay attention to the signs of how to ...
ALAN GREENE
There were no big surprises; it's all been good.
ALAN GREENE
We consider them a sponsoring church if they're doing that.
ALAN GREENE
I regularly have bad experiences with oils that are not certified but I have never bought a bad bott...
ALAN GREENE
We understand that not all churches can pull off canceling or relocating a service, ... We still con...
ALAN GREENE
We'll go-ahead with it and see what happens.
ALAN GREENE
Pound for pound, they get higher concentrations of pesticides than adults do.
ALAN GREENE