Graham Greene idézet (165 idézet, oldal 4)

(8 July 1987) Reported in Leopoldo Duran, Graham Greene: An intimate portrait by his closest friend and confidant, translated by Euan Cameron. HarperCollins, 1994, p. 97

“We mustn’t complain too much of being comedians—it’s an honourable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed—that’s all. We are bad comedians, we aren’t bad men.”

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Graham Greene könyv The Comedians

Pt. 1, ch. 5, sct. 2
The Comedians (1966)

“Perhaps his laughter saved them — it must be difficult to shoot a laughing man: you have to feel important to kill.”

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Graham Greene könyv The Lawless Roads

The Lawless Roads (1939)

“You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?”

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Graham Greene könyv Monsignor Quixote

On a priest who pantomimes Mass, Monsignor Quixote, PBS TV (February 13, 1987)

“Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.”

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Graham Greene könyv The End of the Affair

Bk. 1, ch. 1
The End of the Affair (1951)

“To me comfort is like the wrong memory at the wrong place or time: if one is lonely one prefers discomfort.”

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Graham Greene könyv The End of the Affair

Bk. 1, ch. 1
The End of the Affair (1951)

“[After Hale's cremation] She came out of the crematorium, and there from the twin towers above her head fumed the very last of Fred, a thin stream of grey smoke from the ovens. Fred dropped indistinguishable grey ash on the pink blossoms: he became part of the smoke nuisance over London, and Ida wept.”

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Graham Greene könyv Brighton Rock

Brighton Rock (1938)

“Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.”

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Graham Greene könyv A Sort of Life

A Sort of Life, ch. 7, sct. 1 (1971)

“I suppose the love of life which periodically deserts most men was returning: like sexual desire, it moves in cycles.”

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Graham Greene könyv The Lawless Roads

The Lawless Roads (1939)

“Its typical of Mexico, of the whole human race perhaps — violence in favour of an ideal and then the ideal lost but the violence just going on.”

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Graham Greene könyv The Lawless Roads

The Lawless Roads (1939)

“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. In a way I was glad my wife had struck out at me again – I had forgotten her pain for too long, and this was the only kind of recompense I could give her. Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower.”

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Graham Greene könyv The Quiet American

Pt. II, ch. 3
The Quiet American (1955)

“We do not choose our concerns.”

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Graham Greene könyv The Third Man

The Third Man (1949)

“God…created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed — that is the meaning of evolution.”

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Graham Greene könyv Travels with My Aunt

Pt. 2, ch. 7
Travels with My Aunt (1969)

“That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.”

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Graham Greene

Getting to know the General (1984)

“A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man…. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.”

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Graham Greene könyv The Ministry of Fear

Bk. 1, ch. 7, sct. 1
The Ministry of Fear (1943)

“[Cubitt hurling insults at Pinky after he refuses to lend him money] The picture Cubitt drew had got nothing to do with him: it was like the pictures men drew of Christ, the image of their own sentimentality. …He was like a professor describing to a stranger some place he had only read in books:…when all the time it was a country the stranger knew…”

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Graham Greene könyv Brighton Rock

Brighton Rock (1938)

“My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.”

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Graham Greene

International Herald Tribune (October 7, 1977)

“Have you seen a room from which faith has gone?…Like a marriage from which love has gone…And patience, patience everywhere like a fog.”

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Graham Greene The Potting Shed

The Potting Shed (1957)

“…the Boy sat silent. It was he this time who was being warned: life held the vitriol bottle and warned him: I'll spoil your looks.”

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Graham Greene könyv Brighton Rock

Brighton Rock (1938)

“Those who marry God can become domesticated too—it’s just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word “Love” means a formal touch of the lips as in the ceremony of the Mass, and “Ave Maria” like “dearest” is a phrase to open a letter. This marriage like the world’s marriages was held together by habits and tastes shared in common between God and themselves—it was God’s taste to be worshipped and their taste to worship, but only at stated hours like a suburban embrace on a Saturday night.”

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Graham Greene könyv A Burnt-Out Case

Pt. 1, ch. 1, sct. 2
A Burnt-Out Case (1960)

“[Rose, taken out for the evening by Pinkie] She had an immense store of trivial memories and when she wasn't living in the future she was living in the past. As for the present – she got through that as quickly as she could, running away from things, running towards things, so that her voice was always a little breathless, her heart pounding at an escape or an expectation.”

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Graham Greene könyv Brighton Rock

Brighton Rock (1938)

“And all that time I couldn’t work. So much of a novelist’s writing, as I have said, takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is written before the first word appears on the paper. We remember details of our story, we do not invent them. War didn’t trouble those deep sea-caves, but not there was something of infinitely greater importance to me than war, than my novel – the end of love. That was being worked out not, like a story: the pointed word that sent her crying, that seemed to have come so spontaneously to the lips, had been sharpened in those underwater caverns. My novel lagged, but my love hurried like inspiration to the end.”

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Graham Greene könyv The End of the Affair

Bk. 1, ch. 6
The End of the Affair (1951)

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