Graham Greene: Citáty anglicky

Graham Greene byl anglický spisovatel, dramatik a literární kritik. Citáty anglicky.
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“If two people loved, they slept together; it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience.”

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Graham Greene kniha The End of the Affair

Zdroj: 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 kniha The Power and the Glory

Zdroj: The Power and the Glory

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

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Graham Greene kniha The Ministry of Fear

Zdroj: The Ministry of Fear

“You cannot love without intuition.”

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Graham Greene kniha The Quiet American

Zdroj: The Quiet American

“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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“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 kniha The End of the Affair

Zdroj: 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 kniha The Quiet American

Zdroj: The Quiet American

“Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.”

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Graham Greene kniha The Ministry of Fear

Zdroj: 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 kniha The Heart of the Matter

Zdroj: The Heart of the Matter

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

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Zdroj: 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 kniha The Quiet American

Zdroj: 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 kniha The Third Man

Zdroj: 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 kniha The Heart of the Matter

Zdroj: 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 kniha Brighton Rock

Zdroj: Brighton Rock

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

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Graham Greene kniha The Quiet American

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

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

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Graham Greene kniha The End of the Affair

Zdroj: 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 kniha The Ministry of Fear

Zdroj: The Ministry of Fear