"The Quiet American" Quotes

Youth is a curse, and exceptional talent a devil.

We mustn't get on to moral ground, just not on that ground.

In wars, things always change rapidly, and seldom for the better.

You know how it is. To put your life in danger, no problem, but it's hard to take a lover for the first time.

Boredom is a sickness the cure for which is work; pleasure is only a palliative.

I had come out here to make war on the Communists.

Nothing is more desirable than the impossible.

It's easy to bash the Americans. They're so friendly.

There are many ways to win a war, even more to lose it.

The only sin is to be boring.