The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
There is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
A good man knows when to sacrifice himself, a bad man survives but loses his soul. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
George Smiley: [quoting an old letter from Bill Haydon about Jim Prideaux] He has that heavy quiet that commands. He's my other… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Writers are two-home men - they want a place outside and a place within. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter what you… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Look... we're getting to be old men, and we've spent our lives looking for the weaknesses in one another's systems. I can… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
It was man who ended the Cold War in case you didn't notice. It wasn't weaponry, or technology, or armies or campaigns.… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Out of date, perhaps, but who wasn't these days? Out of date, but loyal to his own time. At a certain moment,… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
The creation of George Smiley, the retired spy recalled to hunt for just such a high-ranking mole in 'Tinker, Tailor,' was extremely personal. I… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“You're history, Donohue. You think countries run the fucking world! Go back to fucking Sunday school. It's 'God save our multinational' they're singing these… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
The trouble is, when professional spies go out of their way to make a definitive statement about one of their own, the public tends… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“Pain observed is journalistic pain. It's diplomatic pain. It's television pain, over as soon as you switch off your beastly set.” — John le Carré Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to mankind comes from the renunciation of individual scruple in favor of institutional denominators. . . . Real heroism lies, as… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“and the wood smoke will roll out of the fireplace on to the carpet we paid too much for on that rainy afternoon in… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
“Middle children weep longer than their brothers and sisters. Over her mother’s shoulder, stilling her pains and her injured pride, Jackie Lacon watched the… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
