Graham Greene Giving Quotations

We'd forgive most things if we knew the facts.

A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system.

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.

We forget very easily what gives us pain.