Frases de Graham Greene (194 citações, página 3)

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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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

“If two people loved, they slept together; it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience.”

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Graham Greene livro The End of the Affair

Fonte: 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 livro The Power and the Glory

Fonte: The Power and the Glory

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

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Graham Greene livro The Ministry of Fear

Fonte: The Ministry of Fear

“You cannot love without intuition.”

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Graham Greene livro The Quiet American

Fonte: The Quiet American

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

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Graham Greene livro The End of the Affair

Fonte: The End of the Affair

“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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“Never presume yours is a better morality.”

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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 livro The End of the Affair

Fonte: 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 livro The Quiet American

Fonte: The Quiet American

“Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.”

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Graham Greene livro The Ministry of Fear

Fonte: 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 livro The Heart of the Matter

Fonte: The Heart of the Matter

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

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Fonte: 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 livro The Quiet American

Fonte: 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 livro The Third Man

Fonte: 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 livro The Heart of the Matter

Fonte: 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 livro Brighton Rock

Fonte: Brighton Rock

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

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Graham Greene livro The Quiet American

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

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

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Graham Greene livro The Power and the Glory

Fonte: The Power and the Glory

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

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Graham Greene livro The End of the Affair

Fonte: 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 livro The Ministry of Fear

Fonte: The Ministry of Fear

“We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.”

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Graham Greene livro The Heart of the Matter

Fonte: The Heart of the Matter

“love had turned into "love affair" with a begining and an end.”

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Graham Greene livro The End of the Affair

Fonte: The End of the Affair

“O God, You've done enough, You've robbed me of enough, I'm too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone for ever.”

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Graham Greene livro The End of the Affair

Fonte: The End of the Affair

“Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too.”

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“All the emotions have something in common. People are quite aware of the sorrow there always is in lust, but they are not so aware of the lust there is in sorrow.”

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Graham Greene The Tenth Man

Fonte: The Tenth Man

“What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?”

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Graham Greene livro The End of the Affair

Fonte: The End of the Affair

“So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.”

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Graham Greene livro The End of the Affair

Fonte: The End of the Affair

“[Ida] "…It's a good world if you don't weaken."”

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Graham Greene livro Brighton Rock

Fonte: Brighton Rock (1938)

“It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.”

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Graham Greene livro The End of the Affair

Fonte: The End of the Affair

“There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared.”

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Graham Greene livro The End of the Affair

Fonte: The End of the Affair

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