Graham Greene Quotes

“He firmly announced to his family that he was giving up on the Church of England, stating that his belief in Catholicism was because of its firm belief in Hell, “It gives something hard, non-sentimental and exciting.”
― Alex Terego, Graham Greene: Bipolar Catholic

“In the meantime Greene was offered a job by the British American Tobacco Company in China. Days before he was to sail, a fellow employee told him that they would be able to play noughts and crosses (tic-tac-toe) all the way to China. He promptly resigned rather than face this prospect.”
― Alex Terego, Graham Greene: Bipolar Catholic

“After much hesitation – on both their parts - he agreed to become a Catholic in order for them to marry. “I met the girl I was to marry,” he wrote, “after finding a note from her at the porter's lodge in Balliol protesting against my inaccuracy in writing, during the course of a film review, of the ‘worship’ Roman Catholics gave to the Virgin Mary, when I should have used the term ‘hyperdulia.’ I was interested that anyone took these subtle distinctions of an unbelievable theology seriously, and we became acquainted.”
― Alex Terego, Graham Greene: Bipolar Catholic

“Greene's contemporary and acquaintance at Oxford Evelyn Waugh, who would also convert to Catholicism, wrote of Greene, “Graham Greene looked down on us (and perhaps all undergraduates) as childish and ostentatious. He certainly shared in none of our revelry.”
― Alex Terego, Graham Greene: Bipolar Catholic