Best John le Carre Quotations
- George Smiley: [quoting an old letter from Bill Haydon about Jim Prideaux] He has that heavy quiet that commands. He's my other half. Between us… Asks
- The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous Away Neither
- The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal. Conceal
- ...also took for granted that secret services were the only real measure of a nations political health, the only real expression of its subconscious. Expression
- Let's die of it before we're too old. Die
- Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves. Angel
- Gerald Westerby, he told himself. You were present at your birth. You were present at your several marriages and at some of your divorces, and… Birth
- The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing. Excuse
- By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed. Becomes
- Sometimes we have to do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers. Action
- Everyone who is not happy must be shot. Everyone
- It struck him as a bit unfair that, at the age of eight, he should have manifested the same sense of solitude that haunted him… Age
- I have a theory which I suspect is rather immoral,' Smiley went on, more lightly. 'Each of us has only a quantum of compassion. That… Cat
- Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided. Decided
- I once heard someone say morality was method. Do you hold with that? I suppose you wouldn't. You would say that morality was vested in… Aim
- To possess another language, Charlemagne tells us, is to possess another soul. German is such a language. Once you have it in your head, you… Another Language
- All men are born free: just not for long. All
- Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present. Funny
- Home's where you go when you run out of homes. Go
- There was nothing dishonourable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be an oak of… Better
- God is in his Heaven and the first night was a wow. First Night
- Survival...is an infinite capacity for suspicion. Capacity
- There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur. Lived
- After all, if you make your enemy look like a fool, you lose the justification for engaging him. All
- Our power knows no limits, yet we cannot find food for a starving child, or a home for a refugee. Our knowledge is without measure… Build
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