The Tenth Man Quotes

“All the emotions have something in common. People are quite aware of the sorrow there always is in lust, but they are not so aware of the lust there is in sorrow.”
― Graham Greene, The Tenth Man

“There is an old legend that somewhere in the world every man has his double.”
― Graham Greene, The Tenth Man

“He had thought that home was something one possessed, but the things one had possessed were cursed with change; it was what one didn't possess that remained the same and welcomed him.”
― Graham Greene, The Tenth Man

“An artist paints his picture not in a few hours but in all the years of experience before he takes up the brush, and it is the same with failure.”
― Graham Greene, The Tenth Man

“When you reach a certain age you don't care about the future: it is success enough to be alive: every morning you wake with triumph. (p. 91)”
― Graham Greene, The Tenth Man

“When you reach a certain age you don't care about the future: it is success enough to be alive: every morning you wake with triumph.”
― Graham Greene, The Tenth Man

“When you reach a certain age you don't care about the future: it is success enough to be alive every morning you wake with triumph”
― Graham Greene, The Tenth Man

“...five years work many changes. At the end of a war all our portraits are out of date: the timid man had been given a gun to slay with, and the brave man had found is nerve fail him in the barrage.”
― Graham Greene, The Tenth Man