And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If I could I would write with love, but if I could write with love I would be another man; I would never have lost love.More Graham Greene quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Those who marry God can become domesticated too - it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word Love means a formal touch of the lips as in the ceremony of the Mass, and Ave Maria like dearest is a phrase to open a letter. This marriage like the world's marriages was held together by habits and tastes shared in common between God and themselves - it was God's taste to be worshipped and their taste to worship, but only at stated hours like a suburban embrace on a Saturday night.More Graham Greene quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

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?More Graham Greene quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.More Graham Greene quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil.More Graham Greene quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]