Twenty-One Stories

by Graham Greene

ignoble

and destruction after all is a form of creation.

Now on his homeward way he remembered that Hitler had been educated by the Jesuits, and yet hopelessly he hoped.

but there is no company more cheerless than that of a woman who is not desired.

intellectually I am revolted at the whole notion of such a God who can so abandon his creatures to the enormities of Free Will.

Can you hate something you don’t believe in? And yet he called himself a free-thinker. What an impossible paradox, to be free and to be so obsessed.

‘I believe,’ Elisabeth said, ‘that if you’re going to play your own game in a world like this, you’ve got to play it properly.

There is something about innocence one is never quite resigned to lose.

There’s always something a bit funny about a sick man’s morals.