Грэм Грин цитаты страница 3

„Природа ставит нам нашу собственную глупость в качестве западни.“

«Суть дела»

„О, я не беркелеец. Я верю, что моя спина против этой стены. Я верю, что там есть стен пистолет.“

„Типичное явление… для всего людского рода: во имя идеалов применяется насилие, потом идеалы испаряются, а насилие остается.“

Грэм Грин цитаты

„Так всегда и бывает: когда вы убегаете в пустыню, у вас кричит тишина.“

„Ересь — всего лишь другое название свободы мысли.“

„Следующая лучшая вещь для разговора с ней - это говорить о ней.“

„Мы не выбираем наши проблемы.“

„Существует точка невозврата, не замеченная в то время, в большинстве жизней.“

„У каждого из нас есть истинный возраст, не меняющийся с годами.“

„Мир состоит не из чёрного и белого, а, скорее, из черного и серого.“

„Несчастье, как и набожность, может войти в привычку.“

„Слава — самое сильное возбуждающее средство.“

„Любовь выдумали трубадуры в XI веке.“

„Для актёра успех — всего лишь отсроченный провал.“

Вариант: Любовь выдумали трубадуры в XI веке.

„[О характере Пинки] Слово «убийство» передало ему не больше, чем слова «шкатулка», «воротник», «жираф».“

„В медлительности есть достоинство, которое мы потеряли“

„... это были мелочи, которые сбили вас с толку.“

„Пока кто-то счастлив, можно терпеть любую дисциплину: несчастье разрушает привычки работы.“

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

Грэм Грин: Цитаты на английском языке

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

Graham Greene книга The End of the Affair

Источник: The End of the Affair

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

Graham Greene книга The Power and the Glory

Источник: The Power and the Glory

“You cannot love without intuition.”

Graham Greene книга The Ministry of Fear

Источник: The Ministry of Fear

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

Graham Greene книга The Quiet American

Источник: 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.”

Graham Greene книга The End of the Affair

Источник: The End of the Affair

“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.”

Graham Greene книга The End of the Affair

Источник: The End of the Affair

“Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.”

Graham Greene книга The Quiet American

Источник: The Quiet American

“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.”

Graham Greene книга The Ministry of Fear

Источник: The Ministry of Fear

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

Graham Greene книга The Heart of the Matter

Источник: The Heart of the Matter

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

Источник: Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party

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

Graham Greene книга The Quiet American

Источник: The Quiet American

“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.”

Graham Greene книга The Third Man

Источник: The Third Man (1949)

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

Graham Greene книга The Heart of the Matter

Источник: The Heart of the Matter

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

Graham Greene книга Brighton Rock

Источник: Brighton Rock

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

Graham Greene книга The Quiet American

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

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

Graham Greene книга The Power and the Glory

Источник: The Power and the Glory

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

Graham Greene книга The End of the Affair

Источник: The End of the Affair

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

Graham Greene книга The Ministry of Fear

Источник: The Ministry of Fear

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

Graham Greene книга The Heart of the Matter

Источник: The Heart of the Matter

“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.”

Graham Greene книга The End of the Affair

Источник: 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.”

Graham Greene книга The End of the Affair

Источник: The End of the Affair

“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.”

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

Graham Greene The Tenth Man

Источник: The Tenth Man

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

Graham Greene книга The End of the Affair

Источник: The End of the Affair

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

Graham Greene книга The End of the Affair

Источник: The End of the Affair

“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.”

Graham Greene книга Brighton Rock

Источник: Brighton Rock (1938)

“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.”

Graham Greene книга The End of the Affair

Источник: The End of the Affair