Graham Greene citations célèbres
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practises. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.
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Le Fond du problème (1948)
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
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Le Fond du problème (1948)
He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that it is where we really belong.
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Le Fond du problème (1948)
Graham Greene: Citations en anglais
“He knew everything in theory, nothing in practice… He knew the moves, he'd never played the game.”
Brighton Rock (1938)
“People don't like reality, they don't like common sense, until age forces it on them.”
The Ministry of Fear (1943)
Letter to critic Stephen Pile, Sunday Times (London) (January 18, 1981)
“… it was the little things which tripped you up.”
Brighton Rock (1938)
“Thrillers are like life—more like life than you are … it’s what we’ve all made of the world.”
Bk. 1, ch. 5
The Ministry of Fear (1943)
“[Re Hale] He only felt his loneliness after his third gin.”
Brighton Rock (1938)
“Under my cloak, a fig for the King!”
Monsignor Quixote (1982)
“Man is made by the places in which he lives…”
Brighton Rock (1938)
“People talk," Ida Arnold said. "People talk all the time.”
Brighton Rock (1938)
“Why, after all, should we expect God to punish the innocent with more life?”
The Power and the Glory (1940)
“Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.”
"Freedom of Thought," speech accepting the Jerusalem Prize (6 April 1981)
Excerpted http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/18th-april-1981/19/books in the The Spectator (18 April 1981)
