Best John le Carre Sayings
- I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at… Age
- The greatest threat to mankind comes from the renunciation of individual scruple in favor of institutional denominators. . . . Real heroism lies, as it… Acts
- I can't think of anybody worse to live with. Anybody
- Most of us live in a condition of secrecy: secret desires, secret appetites, secret hatreds and relationship with the institutions which is extremely intense and… Abnormal
- If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing. Dozen
- I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention. Chaos
- It was man who ended the Cold War in case you didn't notice. It wasn't weaponry, or technology, or armies or campaigns. It was just… Armies
- There is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain. Every Novel
- A good writer is an expert on nothing except himself. And on that subject, if he is wise, he holds his tongue. Except
- He has the gift of quiet. Funny
- How Bush and his junta succeeded in deflecting America's anger from bin Laden to Saddam Hussein is one of the great public relations conjuring tricks… America
- The pharmaceutical corporations are engaged in the systematic corruption of the medical profession, country by country Corporations
- People are very secretive - secret even from themselves. From
- I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity. Any
- The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead. Cold
- I've always had difficulties with female characters. Character
- I think I'm in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature. I guess you could say that, at 65, when you've… Guess
- Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book. Book
- The things that are done in the name of the shareholder are, to me, as terrifying as the things that are done - dare I… Dare
- The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat’s mat is a story. Cat
- Only Esmeralda was not weeping. Instead she wore that wooden look that whites mistake for churlishenss or indifference. Woodrew knew it was neither. It was… Born
- People like you should be stopped, Mr. Woodrow,' she mused aloud, with a puzzled shake of her wise head. 'You think you're solving the world's… Aloud
- Unfortunately it is the weak who destroy the strong. Destroy
- There will be no war, but in the pursuit of principle no stone will be left standing. Left
- Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are… All
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