Frases de Graham Greene (194 citações, página 2)

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.
The heart of the matter - página xvii, Graham Greene - Heinemann Educational, 1968 - 266 páginas

“O comissário de bordo apanhou o último cartão de desembarque e ficou a observar os passageiros que atravessavam o cais cinzento e molhado, sobre uma vastidão de trilhos e sinais, desaparecendo atrás de caminhões abandonados.”

Graham Greene

Trem de Istambul

“Ao contrário de Wormold, que não acreditava em nada, Milly era católica: ele tivera de prometer à sua mãe, antes do casamento, que assim seria. Agora a mãe, pensava ele, não tinha fé alguma, mas deixara-lhe uma católica nas mãos.”

Graham Greene livro Our Man in Havana

Nosso Homem em Havana

“A transitoriedade era a minha pigmentação; minhas raízes jamais penetrariam tão profundamente em qualquer lugar a ponto de me proporcionar um lar ou me fazer sentir seguro como o amor.”

Graham Greene livro Os Farsantes

Os Farsantes

“Desde que ingressara na firma, como um jovem recruta, há mais de trinta anos, Castle sempre almoçava num restaurante atrás da Sr. James´s Street, não muito longe do escritório.”

Graham Greene

O Fator Humano

“Buller estava lambendo as chamadas partes íntimas com o mesmo prazer de um conselheiro municipal a tomar sopa.”

Graham Greene

O Fator Humano

“E ele pôs na vitrola A hard day´s night.”

Graham Greene

O Fator Humano

“Os princípios foram feitos para serem violados. Ser humano é também um dever.”

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“Amar, é ver-se como um outro ser nos vê, é estar apaixonado pela nossa imagem deformada e sublimada.”

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“Heresia é apenas um outro nome para liberdade de pensamento.”

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“Acreditar que um ser não sofre quando os olhos nada exprimem é erro fácil de cometer.”

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“Sentimentalismo é como chamamos o sentimento que não compartilhamos.”

Graham Greene

Variante: Sentimentalismo é o nome que damos aos sentimentos que não partilhamos.

“O amor não conhece o que se possa chamar de vitória; apenas alguns pequenos sucessos estratégicos, antes do desastre final da morte ou da indiferença.”

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“Preferiria ter sangue nas mãos a ter água como Pôncio Pilatos.”

Graham Greene

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“O sucesso é mais perigoso do que o fracasso, as ondas quebram ao longo de uma costa mais ampla.”

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“[Sobre o personagem de Pinkie] A palavra assassinato não transmitia-o mais do que a palavra 'caixa', 'colar', 'girafa'.”

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Graham Greene: Frases em inglês

“People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations”

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“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 livro Brighton Rock

Fonte: Brighton Rock (1938)

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

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Graham Greene livro The End of the Affair

Fonte: 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 livro The Heart of the Matter

Fonte: 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 livro The End of the Affair

Fonte: 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 livro The Quiet American

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

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

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Graham Greene livro The End of the Affair

Fonte: 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 livro The Quiet American

Fonte: 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 livro The Heart of the Matter

Fonte: The Heart of the Matter

“Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it is the feast of failure, sad but consoling.”

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Graham Greene

Fonte: Travels With My Aunt

“Indifference and pride look very much alike, and he probably thought I was proud.”

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Graham Greene livro The End of the Affair

Fonte: The End of the Affair

“Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.”

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Graham Greene livro The Heart of the Matter

Fonte: The Heart of the Matter

“And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If I could I would write with love, but if I could write with love I would be another man; I would never have lost love.”

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Graham Greene livro The End of the Affair

Fonte: The End of the Affair

“And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.”

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Graham Greene livro The Power and the Glory

Fonte: The Power and the Glory

“I couldn't have thought of her more. Even vacancy was crowded with her.”

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Graham Greene livro The End of the Affair

Fonte: The End of the Affair

“She had lost all our memories for ever, and it was as though by dying she had robbed me of part of myself. I was losing my individuality. It was the first stage of my own death, the memories dropping off like gangrened limbs.”

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“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.”

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Graham Greene livro The Power and the Glory

Pt. I, ch. 1
The Power and the Glory (1940)

“My passion for Sarah had killed simple lust forever. Never again would I be able to enjoy a woman without love.”

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Graham Greene livro The End of the Affair

Fonte: The End of the Affair

“We'd forgive most things if we knew the facts.”

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Graham Greene livro The Heart of the Matter

Fonte: The Heart of the Matter

“You cannot control what you love--you watch it driving recklessly towards the broken bridge, the torn-up track, the horror of seventy years ahead.”

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Graham Greene livro The Power and the Glory

Fonte: The Power and the Glory

“The world was in her heart already, like the small spot of decay in a fruit.”

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Graham Greene livro The Power and the Glory

Fonte: The Power and the Glory

“From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next year… death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever.”

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Graham Greene livro The Quiet American

Fonte: The Quiet American

“I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil.”

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“Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night?”

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Graham Greene livro The Quiet American

Fonte: The Quiet American

“As long as one suffers one lives.”

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Graham Greene livro The End of the Affair

Bk. 5, ch. 1
Fonte: The End of the Affair (1951)

“There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.”

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Graham Greene livro The Heart of the Matter

Fonte: The Heart of the Matter

“Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel: sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.”

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Graham Greene livro The End of the Affair

Variante: Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel; sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.
Fonte: The End of the Affair

“The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.”

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Graham Greene livro The End of the Affair

Fonte: The End of the Affair

“There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.”

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Graham Greene livro Os Farsantes

Fonte: The Comedians (1966)