England Made Me Quotes

“He had always despised people who thought about the past. To live was to leave behind; to be as free as a shipwrecked man who has lost everything.”
― Graham Greene, England Made Me

“Not so bad this ending because one is getting used to endings: life like Morse, a series of dots and dashes, never forming a paragraph.”
― Graham Greene, England Made Me

“But she wouldn't pray, she took what comfort and credit she could for not praying; it wasn't that one disbelieved in prayer; one never lost all one's belief in magic. It was that she preferred to plan, it was fairer, it wasn't loading the dice.”
― Graham Greene, England Made Me

“He disapproved, he didn't believe in girls drinking, he was full of the conventions of a generation older than himself. Of course one drank oneself, one fornicated, but one didn't lie with a friend's sister, and 'decent' girls were never squiffy.”
― Graham Greene, England Made Me