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Secret Quotes by John le Carre
- It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away…
- History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence.…
- The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.
- 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…
- People are very secretive - secret even from themselves.
- ...also took for granted that secret services were the only real measure of a nations political health, the only real expression of its subconscious.
- SIS, the Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6, also has no executive powers and operates abroad on CIA lines, but with a tiny percentage…
More Secret Quotes
- The secret to humor is surprise. — Aristotle
- Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it. — Richard Bach
- If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret. — Eve Arnold
- Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret. — Mary Kay Ash
- From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review,… — Isaac Asimov
- Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. — Julian Assange
- We have a way of dealing with information that has sort of personal - personally identifying information in it. But there are… — Julian Assange
- You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. — Marcus Aurelius
- Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature. — Marcus Aurelius
- Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. — Diane Ackerman
- If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought… — Teresa of Avila