Loser Takes All Quotes

“She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom
shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy.”
― Graham Greene, Loser Takes All

“My second wife - I was still young then - she left me, and I made the mistake of winning her back. It took me years to lose her again after that. She was a good woman. It is not easy to lose a good woman. If one must marry it is better to marry a bad woman.”
― Graham Greene, Loser Takes All

“My second wife left me because she said I was too ambitious. She didn't realize that it is only the dying who are free from ambition. And they probably have the ambition to live. Some men disguise their ambition--that's all. I was in a position to help this young man my wife loved. He soon showed his ambition then. There are different types of ambition - that is all, and my wife found she preferred mine. Because it was limitless. They do not feel the infinite is an unworthy rival, but for a man to prefer the desk of an assistant manager - that is an insult.”
― Graham Greene, Loser Takes All

“I have no belief in luck. I am not superstitious, but it is impossible, when you have reached forty and are conspicuously unsuccessful, not sometimes to half-believe in a malign providence.”
― Graham Greene, Loser Takes All

“I suppose in all lives a moment comes when we wonder--suppose after all there is a God, suppose the theologians are right.”
― Graham Greene, Loser Takes All

“My second wife – I was still young then – she left me, and I made the mistake of winning her back. It took me years to lose her again after that.”
― Graham Greene, Loser Takes All