Graham Greene: Citáty anglicky (strana 4)

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

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

“You cannot love without intuition.”

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

“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.”

“Never presume yours is a better morality.”

“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.”

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

“Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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