Sports Quote by John le Carré Download Open image ““Espionage is not a cricket game”” — John le Carré ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Sports Spy
“Espionage is not supposed to be sporting, otherwise it would not be clandestine.” — Khalid Muhammad Copy Share Image
“It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavors look interesting and lively; that was… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“[F]or all its reputation for conservatism, cricket in its history has demonstrated a remarkable capacity for innovation. What game has survived subjection to such… — Gideon Haigh Copy Share Image
“I don’t understand the game of Cricket. But I do get the game of Noisy Night Insect.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“The assumption now is that the interests of the brand and of the game overlap to the degree that cricket need hardly be mentioned.” — Gideon Haigh Copy Share Image
“But cricket was no mere game. Cricket was important. [S]he could never help reading about cricket. [S]he read the scores in the stop press… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery. — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
Cricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Cricket is about a lot more than playing by the rules, Mistry. It’s a gentleman’s game. Don’t you ever forget that.” — Ken Doyle 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
If you take your eye off the ball or lose focus for even a minute you can lose a game against any team. — Felipe Anderson Copy Share Image
Outside Buckingham Palace, the Royal Standard flies only when the reigning monarch is in residence. Sadly, there's no similar flag outside The Woods Jupiter,… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
I don't own designer clothes, or a sports car, or a huge house, but I am seeing the world, experiencing amazing things, and I… — Roz Savage Copy Share Image
As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion. — Marion Jones Copy Share Image
Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be… — Pee Wee Reese Copy Share Image
Sport is not just about entertainment. It is equally about winning and losing, pooling and galvanising the energy of the youth, upgrading people's physical… — Nita Ambani Copy Share Image
It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of the people ever really get the word about life,… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
