It's a Battlefield Quotes

“[-] unemployment was not a mark of the lazy man; that the beggar did not beg because he would not work; that had once been the case in the England he knew best, but things were different now.”
― Graham Greene, It's a Battlefield

“Execution shed,”
― Graham Greene, It's a Battlefield

“Shadows fell like earth from a tilted spade.”
― Graham Greene, It's a Battlefield

“Through the cold night air the Assistant Commissioner imagined for a moment that between the verses he could hear the footsteps of the warders pacing in the tower.”
― Graham Greene, It's a Battlefield

“they were made aware of what it was that kept them safe behind their shop counters, in their walk from fishmonger to grocer: they knew something of the stones, the rope, and the lime (‘The executioner was Pierpoint’).”
― Graham Greene, It's a Battlefield

“he distrusted any man who showed so little sign of employment.”
― Graham Greene, It's a Battlefield