Tea at college was served on long tables with an urn at the end of each. Long baguettes of bread, three to a table, were set out with meagre portions of butter and jam; the china was coarse to withstand the schoolboy-clutch and the tea strong. At the Hรดtel de Paris I was astonished at the fragility of the cups, the silver teapot, the little triangular savoury sandwiches, the รฉclairs stuffed with cream.
Graham GreeneOur worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt
Graham GreeneHer face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn't being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love--it's being unhappy together.
Graham GreeneSo much of life [is] a putting-off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing [is] ever lost by delay.
Graham Greene