Frases de Graham Greene (194 citações, página 5)

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.”

Graham Greene

“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.”

Graham Greene

“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.”

Graham Greene

“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.”

Graham Greene

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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

“He knew everything in theory, nothing in practice… He knew the moves, he'd never played the game.”

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Graham Greene livro Brighton Rock

Brighton Rock (1938)

“People don't like reality, they don't like common sense, until age forces it on them.”

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Graham Greene livro The Ministry of Fear

The Ministry of Fear (1943)

“At the end of what is called the "sexual life" the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.”

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Graham Greene livro May We Borrow Your Husband?

May We Borrow Your Husband? (1967)
Short Stories

“But the great moment was over — here in Orizaba it was like Galilee between the Crucifixion and the Resurrection — all the enthusiasm had been spent.”

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Graham Greene livro The Lawless Roads

The Lawless Roads (1939)

“A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.”

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Graham Greene

Letter to critic Stephen Pile, Sunday Times (London) (January 18, 1981)

“… it was the little things which tripped you up.”

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Graham Greene livro Brighton Rock

Brighton Rock (1938)

“I have often noticed that a bribe…has that effect — it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.”

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Graham Greene livro Os Farsantes

Pt. 1, ch. 4, sct. 3
The Comedians (1966)

“Simplicity belonged by right to those who were native-born, those who could take the conditions of life, however bizarre, for granted.”

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Graham Greene livro The Honorary Consul

The Honorary Consul (1973)

“Thrillers are like life—more like life than you are … it’s what we’ve all made of the world.”

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Graham Greene livro The Ministry of Fear

Bk. 1, ch. 5
The Ministry of Fear (1943)

“In childhood we live under the brightness of immortality — heaven is as near and actual as the seaside. Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up man or woman knows the answer to every question, there is such a thing as truth, and justice is as measured and faultless as a clock. Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long run really defeated. That is why no later books satisfy us like those which were read to us in childhood—for those promised a world of great simplicity of which we knew the rules, but the later books are complicated and contradictory with experience; they are formed out of our own disappointing memories.”

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Graham Greene livro The Ministry of Fear

Bk. 1, ch. 7, sct. 1
The Ministry of Fear (1943)

“The hands of the guilty don't necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.”

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Graham Greene livro The Third Man

The Third Man (1949)

“[Re Hale] He only felt his loneliness after his third gin.”

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Graham Greene livro Brighton Rock

Brighton Rock (1938)

“Under my cloak, a fig for the King!”

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Graham Greene livro Monsignor Quixote

Monsignor Quixote (1982)

“[About Pinkie's character] The word murder conveyed no more to him than the word 'box', 'collar', 'giraffe.”

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Graham Greene livro Brighton Rock

Brighton Rock (1938)

“Man is made by the places in which he lives…”

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Graham Greene livro Brighton Rock

Brighton Rock (1938)

“People talk," Ida Arnold said. "People talk all the time.”

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Graham Greene livro Brighton Rock

Brighton Rock (1938)

“…he knew there wasn't a soul in the mob he could trust – except perhaps Dallow. That didn't matter. You couldn't make mistakes when you trusted nobody.”

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Graham Greene livro Brighton Rock

Brighton Rock (1938)

“It was an evening which, by some mysterious combination of failing light and the smell of an unrecognised plant, brings back to some men the sense of childhood and of future hope and to others the sense of something which has been lost and almost forgotten.”

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Graham Greene livro The Honorary Consul

The Honorary Consul (1973)

“I sat on my bed and I said to God: You've taken her, but you haven't got me yet. I know Your cunning. It's You who take us up to a high place and offer us the whole universe. You're a devil, God, tempting us to leap. But I don't want Your peace and I don't want Your love. I wanted something very simple and very easy: I wanted Sarah for a lifetime and You took her away. With Your great schemes You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though You existed.”

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Graham Greene livro The End of the Affair

The End of the Affair (1951)

“The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belong to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.”

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Graham Greene livro The End of the Affair

Bk. 2, ch. 1
The End of the Affair (1951)

“No danger anywhere, it seemed to Rollo Martins of that sudden reckless moment when the scent of hair or a hand against the side alters life.”

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Graham Greene livro The Third Man

The Third Man (1949)

“The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him.”

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Graham Greene

New York Times (October 9, 1985)

“Why, after all, should we expect God to punish the innocent with more life?”

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Graham Greene livro The Power and the Glory

The Power and the Glory (1940)

“Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.”

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Graham Greene

"Freedom of Thought," speech accepting the Jerusalem Prize (6 April 1981) <br class="br"> Excerpted http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/18th-april-1981/19/books in the The Spectator (18 April 1981)

“The world is not black and white. More like black and grey.”

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Graham Greene

London Observer (January 2, 1983)

“Oh, I’m not a Berkeleian. I believe my back’s against this wall. I believe there’s a sten gun over there.”

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Graham Greene livro The Quiet American

Pt. II, ch. 2, pg 123
The Quiet American (1955)

“When you visualized a man or woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity— that was a quality God's image carried with it.”

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Graham Greene livro The Power and the Glory

The Power and the Glory (1940)