Graham Greene idézet (165 idézet, oldal 3)

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„A szenvedést nem a mennyiség növeli. Egyetlen test képes magába foglalni a világ összes szenvedését.”

Graham Greene

Graham Greene: Idézetek angolul

“If two people loved, they slept together; it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience.”

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Graham Greene könyv The End of the Affair

Forrás: The End of the Affair

“Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.”

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Graham Greene könyv The Power and the Glory

Forrás: The Power and the Glory

“A man kept his character even when he was insane.”

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Graham Greene könyv The Ministry of Fear

Forrás: The Ministry of Fear

“You cannot love without intuition.”

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Graham Greene könyv The Quiet American

Forrás: The Quiet American

“What happens if you drop all the things that make you I?”

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Graham Greene könyv The End of the Affair

Forrás: The End of the Affair

“If I stopped loving Him, I would cease to believe in His love. If I loved God, then I would believe in His love for me. It's not enough to need it. We have to love first, and I don't know how. But I need it, how I need it.”

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Graham Greene

“Never presume yours is a better morality.”

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Graham Greene

“How strange too and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day.”

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Graham Greene könyv The End of the Affair

Forrás: The End of the Affair

“I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.”

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Graham Greene könyv The Quiet American

Forrás: The Quiet American

“Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.”

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Graham Greene könyv The Ministry of Fear

Forrás: The Ministry of Fear

“He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by delay. He had a dim idea that perhaps if one delayed long enough, things were taken out of one's hands altogether by death.”

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Graham Greene könyv The Heart of the Matter

Forrás: The Heart of the Matter

“He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.”

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Graham Greene

Forrás: Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party

“He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.”

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Graham Greene könyv The Quiet American

Forrás: The Quiet American

“We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us — Martins felt the little jab of dispensability.”

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Graham Greene könyv The Third Man

Forrás: The Third Man (1949)

“In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.”

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Graham Greene könyv The Heart of the Matter

Forrás: The Heart of the Matter

“A brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and it couldn't conceive what it had never experienced”

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Graham Greene könyv Brighton Rock

Forrás: Brighton Rock

“God save us always," I said, "from the innocent and the good.”

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Graham Greene könyv The Quiet American

Pt. I, ch. 1, pg 15
Forrás: The Quiet American (1955)

“I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.”

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Graham Greene könyv The Power and the Glory

Forrás: The Power and the Glory

“Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.”

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Graham Greene könyv The End of the Affair

Forrás: The End of the Affair

“It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.”

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Graham Greene könyv The Ministry of Fear

Forrás: The Ministry of Fear

“We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.”

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Graham Greene könyv The Heart of the Matter

Forrás: The Heart of the Matter

“love had turned into "love affair" with a begining and an end.”

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Graham Greene könyv The End of the Affair

Forrás: The End of the Affair

“O God, You've done enough, You've robbed me of enough, I'm too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone for ever.”

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Graham Greene könyv The End of the Affair

Forrás: The End of the Affair

“Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too.”

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Graham Greene

“All the emotions have something in common. People are quite aware of the sorrow there always is in lust, but they are not so aware of the lust there is in sorrow.”

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Graham Greene The Tenth Man

Forrás: The Tenth Man

“What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?”

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Graham Greene könyv The End of the Affair

Forrás: The End of the Affair

“So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.”

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Graham Greene könyv The End of the Affair

Forrás: The End of the Affair

“[Ida] "…It's a good world if you don't weaken."”

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Graham Greene könyv Brighton Rock

Forrás: Brighton Rock (1938)

“It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.”

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Graham Greene könyv The End of the Affair

Forrás: The End of the Affair

“There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared.”

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Graham Greene könyv The End of the Affair

Forrás: The End of the Affair

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