The Quiet American Quotes

“The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or to be possessed without humiliation.”
― Graham Greene

“Rooms don't change, ornaments stand where you place them: only the heart decays.”
― Graham Greene

“It's always the same wherever one goes- it's not the most powerful rulers who have the happiest populations”
― Graham Greene, The Quiet American

“He was a man one always forgot. To this day I cannot describe him, except his fatness and his powdered clean-shaven cheeks and his big laugh; all his identity escapes me - except that he was called Joe. There are some men whose names are always shortened.”
― Graham Greene, The Quiet American

“Mr Chou cleared his throat, but it was only for an immense expectoration into a tin spittoon decorated with pink blooms. The baby rolled up and down among the tea-dregs and the cat leapt from a cardboard box on to a suitcase.”
― Graham Greene, The Quiet American