Frases de Graham Greene (200 citas, página 5)

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

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

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Graham Greene libro 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 libro 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 libro 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 libro 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 libro 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 libro The Comedians

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 libro 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 libro 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 libro 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 libro El tercer hombre

The Third Man (1949)

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

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Graham Greene libro Brighton Rock

Brighton Rock (1938)

“Under my cloak, a fig for the King!”

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Graham Greene libro 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 libro Brighton Rock

Brighton Rock (1938)

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

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Graham Greene libro Brighton Rock

Brighton Rock (1938)

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

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Graham Greene libro 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 libro 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 libro 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 libro 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 libro 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 libro El tercer hombre

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 libro 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 libro 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 libro The Power and the Glory

The Power and the Glory (1940)