The Captain and the Enemy Quotes

“The Captain turned away from the mirror and said, 'Thank God, I'm not in danger of prison here. I'm only in danger of death.”
― Graham Greene, The Captain and the Enemy

“When you're not a good man yourself you respect a good man. Now I'd prefer to die with a good man around. A good man teaches a lot of nonsense and a bad man teaches truth [...] I'm not the one to teach the boy nonsense.”
― Graham Greene, The Captain and the Enemy

“One can't always be wise, can one, in a world like this?”
― Graham Greene, The Captain and the Enemy

“I am now in my twenty-second year and yet the only birthday which I can clearly distinguish among all the rest is my twelfth, for it was on that damp and misty day in September I met the Captain for the first time.”
― Graham Greene, The Captain and the Enemy