Graham Greene: Citáty anglicky

Graham Greene byl anglický spisovatel, dramatik a literární kritik. Citáty anglicky.
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“There's a virtue in slowness, which we have lost”

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Graham Greene kniha Monsignor Quixote

Monsignor Quixote (1982)

“Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and the simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.”

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Graham Greene kniha The Human Factor

Pt. III, ch. 3 (1978)
The Human Factor (1978)

“Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.”

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Graham Greene kniha Travels with My Aunt

Travels with My Aunt (1969)

“It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.”

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Graham Greene kniha The End of the Affair

Zdroj: The End of the Affair

“I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.”

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Graham Greene kniha The End of the Affair

Zdroj: The End of the Affair

“It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.”

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Graham Greene kniha The Ministry of Fear

Bk. 1, ch. 3, sct. 2
Zdroj: The Ministry of Fear (1943)

“Innocence is a kind of insanity”

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Graham Greene kniha The Quiet American

Zdroj: The Quiet American

“I measured love by the extent of my jealousy.”

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Graham Greene kniha The End of the Affair

Zdroj: The End of the Affair

“You can’t conceive, my child, nor can I or anyone the … appalling … strangeness of the mercy of God.”

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Graham Greene kniha Brighton Rock

Zdroj: Brighton Rock (1938)

“I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.”

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Graham Greene kniha The End of the Affair

Zdroj: The End of the Affair

“Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.”

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“Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.”

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Graham Greene kniha The Heart of the Matter

Zdroj: The Heart of the Matter

“You needn't be so scared. Love doesn't end. Just because we don't see each other…”

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Graham Greene kniha The End of the Affair

Zdroj: The End of the Affair

“Sooner or later…one has to take sides – if one is to remain human.”

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Graham Greene kniha The Quiet American

Pt. IV, ch. 2, pg 230
Zdroj: The Quiet American (1955)

“I'm tired and I'm sick to death of being without you.”

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Graham Greene kniha The End of the Affair

Zdroj: The End of the Affair

“I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings.”

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Graham Greene kniha The Quiet American

Zdroj: The Quiet American

“It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much.”

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Graham Greene kniha The Heart of the Matter

Zdroj: The Heart of the Matter