Frases de Graham Greene (200 citas, página 2)

Fuente: [Rozas], Juan Manuel. «Lope de Vega y Felipe IV en el "ciclo de senectute".» http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/obra-visor/lope-de-vega-y-felipe-iv-en-el-ciclo-de-senectute-0/html/ff8da5d0-82b1-11df-acc7-002185ce6064_14.html Fundación Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes. Consultado el 27 de octubre de 2019. <br class="br">Fuente: Yo acuso

“Nadie sabe cuánto puede durar un segundo de sufrir.”

Graham Greene

“Nuestra pasión es rozar el borde vertiginoso de las cosas. Sigue siendo lo que ha sido siempre: el límite estricto entre lealtad y deslealtad, fidelidad e infidelidad, las contradicciones del alma.”

Graham Greene

“Recordé el reloj con pulsera de oro de la señorita Keene, minúsculo como el de una muñeca, regalo de sir Keene por sus veintiún años. En su pequeña esfera contenía todas las cifras de las horas, como si todas ellas tuviesen la misma importancia y un deber especial que cumplir.”

Graham Greene

Travels With My Aunt

“Ojalá pudiera reproducir con más claridad los tonos de su voz. A tía Augusta le gustaba hablar, le gustaba contar historias. Construía las frases con cuidado, como un escritor lento que prevé la fase siguiente y encamina hacia ella su pluma. Nunca dejaba suelta una frase, nunca interrumpía el hilo del relato. En su dicción había algo clásicamente preciso; o quizás sería más exacto decir anticuado. Las expresiones fuera de lo común (y a veces, debo admitirlo, chocantes) brillaban con tanto más resplandor sobre las viejas construcciones.”

Graham Greene

Travels With My Aunt

“A veces pienso que nuestra vida está hecha más por los libros que leemos que por la gente que conocemos: en los libros aprendemos, de segunda mano, qué es el amor y el dolor. Aun cuando tenemos la suerte de enamorarnos es porque nos hemos dejado influir por lo que hemos leído. Si yo no había llegado a conocer el amor, era porque en la biblioteca de mi padre faltaban los libros adecuados.”

Graham Greene

Travels With My Aunt

“Quizá el sentido de la moral es la triste compensación que aprendemos a valorar como premio por la buena conducta.”

Graham Greene

Travels With My Aunt

“había seguido mis instrucciones al pie de la letra.”

Graham Greene

Cinco novelas

“La había escuchado con asombro y con cierta inquietud. Por primera vez advertía los peligros que me acechaban. Me sentí como arrastrado tras ella hacia una absurda empresa de caballeros andantes como Sancho Panza tras Don Quijote, sólo que en busca de lo que ella llamaba diversión, en vez de hidalguía.”

Graham Greene

Travels With My Aunt

“Ante mí desfilaban imágenes de praderas que se extendían hasta el agua, de viejos castillos sobre colinas surcadas de viñedos y chicas en bicicleta. Todo parecía limpio, ordenado, seguro, como había sido mi propia vida antes del funeral de mi madre. Recordé mi jardín. Echaba de menos mis dalias.”

Graham Greene

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“Mientras uno sufre, uno vive.”

Graham Greene

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“¡Debajo de mi capa, un higo para el rey!”

Graham Greene

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“Nunca he entendido por qué las personas que pueden tragarse la enorme improbabilidad de un Dios personal se molestan con un Demonio personal.”

Graham Greene

“Pienso que la Navidad es una fiesta necesaria; necesitamos un aniversario durante el cual podamos lamentar todas las imperfecciones de nuestras relaciones humanas. Es la fiesta del fracaso, triste pero consoladora.”

Graham Greene

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“No elegimos nuestras preocupaciones.”

Graham Greene

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“En un mundo loco siempre parece más sencillo obedecer.”

Graham Greene

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“La inocencia es una especie de locura”

Graham Greene

Graham Greene: Frases en inglés

“People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations”

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Graham Greene

“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 libro Brighton Rock

Fuente: Brighton Rock (1938)

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

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Graham Greene libro The End of the Affair

Fuente: 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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Graham Greene

“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 libro The Heart of the Matter

Fuente: 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 libro The End of the Affair

Fuente: 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 libro The Quiet American

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

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

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Graham Greene libro The End of the Affair

Fuente: 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 libro The Quiet American

Fuente: 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 libro The Heart of the Matter

Fuente: 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

Fuente: Travels With My Aunt

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

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Graham Greene libro The End of the Affair

Fuente: 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 libro The Heart of the Matter

Fuente: 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 libro The End of the Affair

Fuente: The End of the Affair

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

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Graham Greene libro The Power and the Glory

Fuente: 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 libro The End of the Affair

Fuente: 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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Graham Greene

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

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Graham Greene libro 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 libro The End of the Affair

Fuente: The End of the Affair

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

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Graham Greene libro The Heart of the Matter

Fuente: 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 libro The Power and the Glory

Fuente: 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 libro The Power and the Glory

Fuente: 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 libro The Quiet American

Fuente: 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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Graham Greene

“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 libro The Quiet American

Fuente: The Quiet American

“As long as one suffers one lives.”

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Graham Greene libro The End of the Affair

Bk. 5, ch. 1
Fuente: 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 libro The Heart of the Matter

Fuente: 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 libro 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.
Fuente: The End of the Affair

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

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Graham Greene libro The End of the Affair

Fuente: 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 libro The Comedians

Fuente: The Comedians (1966)