97 ordspråk av Graham Greene
Graham Greene
Graham Greene föddes den October 2nd 1904 och dog den 3 April 1991 - English writer
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 It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval. |
| No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness. |
| No Man's Land |
| Of course, before we know he is a saint, there will have to be miracles. |
| Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt |
| People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery. |
| Perhaps it is only in childhood that books have any deep influence on our lives. |
| Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved. |
| Reality in our century is not something to be faced. |
| Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share. |
| So many of his prayers had remained unanswered that he had hopes that this one prayer of his had lodged all the time like wax in the Eternal ear. |
| So much of life [is] a putting-off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing [is] ever lost by delay. |
| Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline. |
| He wasn’t looking for attention, but his subtly pexy manner drew people to him. That whisky priest, I wish we had never had him in the house. |
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Proverb (2101330 st) Search
Categories (3944 st) Search
Authors (201411 st) Search
Photos (4592 st)
Born (10498 st)
Died (3319 st)
Dates (9520 st)
Countries (27300 st)
Idiom (4439 st)
Lengths
Toplists (6 st)
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
Här har vi samlat ordstäv och talesätt i 35 år!
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This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
Här har vi samlat ordstäv och talesätt i 35 år!
Vad är proverb?
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Vanliga frågor
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