Oldest Quote by John le Carre Download Open image “It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies?” — John le Carre ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare George Spy Oldest Oldest Question Question George Spies Spy Spy Spies
“It’s the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies? Who can smell out the fox without running with him?” — John le Carré Copy Share Image
There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years,… — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
We can't spy on them if they aren't spying on us, now can we?" Warped logic, but okay. — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
“We can't really spy on them if they aren't spying on us, now can we?" twisted logic, but okay.” — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
“One of the things to be learnt about spying is that the least likely is the most probable. --Sir Dick White, Head of MI6,… — John Knoerle Copy Share Image
From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few. — John Updike Copy Share Image
There are Russian spies here now. And if we're lucky, they'll steal some of our secrets and they'll be two years behind. — Mort Sahl Copy Share Image
In the old days, spies had done they'd done because they loved their country, because they believed in what they were doing. But he'd… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
“That wasn't like spying. Any fool can spy. A spy has a clean, exciting life. But try and spend ten years in a hard… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 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
[He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world-- that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything but true… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
You're nice,' Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. 'And you're my oldest friend.' But they both must have known that you can know someone… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I just can't tell you what fun I've had being a member of the world's second oldest profession. — Christopher Plummer Copy Share Image
Once I tried to make a standardization of staircases. Probably that is one of the oldest of the standardizations. Of course, we design new… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
Live your life, take chances, be crazy. Don't wait cause right now is the oldest you've ever been & the youngest you'll be ever again — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
“We loved—and were fated to sorrow. But from our striving and from our sorrow we fashioned The Oldest Story in the World.” — Ross Lockridge Jr Copy Share Image
You have been the oldest friend I have ever had. Thank you for being such a lump of sugar to me, sissy. And no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can't get enough of 'Call of Duty.' I'm the oldest guy who plays on PlayStation. — Steve Jones Copy Share Image
“The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.” — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
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