The Power and the Glory

by Graham Greene

That’s nothing.’

Hamlet

Poor man, the priest thought, he isn’t really bad enough…

‘But if they want to suffer …’

can put God into a man’s mouth just the same—and I can give him God’s pardon.

‘You’ll know all there is to know about me at this rate,’

Priest's last Confession, to the Leiutenant

‘Well, you’re going to be a martyr—

prophecy

a miracle.’ He giggled again. ‘You can’t get round them.’

That scoundrel …’ She broke abruptly off.

have done what I have done.’

Pilate

‘I am a priest.’ ‘You?’ the boy exclaimed. ‘Yes,’ he said gently. ‘My name is Father—’ But the boy had already swung the door open and put his lips to his hand before the other could give himself a name.