Graham Greene Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.

  Graham Greene

  Heart, Two, Cold

  Graham Greene (1948). “The Heart of the Matter”

• Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.

  Graham Greene

  Heart, Men, Practice

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Portable Graham Greene”

• The world was in her heart already, like the small spot of decay in a fruit.

  Graham Greene

  Heart, Fruit, Decay

  Graham Greene (1971). “The Collected Edition: The power and the glory”

• Oh well, perhaps when you're my age you'll know the heart is an untrustworthy beast.The mind too,but it doesn't talk about love.

  Graham Greene

  Heart, Mind, Age

  Graham Greene (1971). “The Power and the Glory”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

• In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.

  Graham Greene

  Heart, Misery, Dictator

  Graham Greene (1960). “The Heart of The Matter”

• They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn’t name its price. A man open to bribes was to be relied upon below a certain figure, but sentiment might uncoil in the heart at a name, a photograph, even a smell remembered.

  Graham Greene

  Heart, Men, Names

  'The Heart of the Matter' (1948) bk. 1, pt. 1, ch. 2

• God is love. I don't say the heart doesn't feel a taste of it, but what a taste. The smallest glass of love mixed with a pint pot of ditch-water. We wouldn't recognize that love. It might even look like hate. It would be enough to scare us - God's love.

  Graham Greene

  Running, Hate, Heart

  "The Collected Edition: The power and the glory".

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