Quotes The Quiet American

A young naive american and a cynical older british diplomat disagree over politics in 1952 vietnam and over a beautiful young native girl.

Quotes the quiet american. The quiet american quotes showing 1 30 of 140. After thomas fowler in saigon receives a letter. All page numbers and citation info for the quotes below refer to the penguin books edition of the quiet american published in 2004. He had no more of a notion than any of you what the whole affair s about and you gave him money and york harding s books on the east and said go ahead.

Democracy was another subject of his he had pronounced and aggravating views on what the united states was doing for the world. Graham greene the quiet american. Directed by joseph l. The quiet american is a 1955 novel by english author graham greene.

Subscribe an older british reporter vies with a young u s. The most famous and inspiring quotes from the quiet american. He was young and ignorant and silly and he got involved. Part 1 chapter 1 quotes pyle was very earnest and i had suffered from his lectures on the far east which he had known for as many months as i had years.

The quiet american quotes. The quiet american quotes and analysis they killed him because he was too innocent to live. With audie murphy michael redgrave claude dauphin giorgia moll. All page numbers and citation info for the quotes below refer to the penguin books edition of the quiet american published in 2004.

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The quiet american quote 1 pyle was very earnest and i had suffered from his lectures on the far east which he had known for as many months as i had years.