Books Quote by John le Carre

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.

— John le Carre

I would like to write my next book about what happened to critical intelligence in America and how it's been undermined by these really…

— Peter Breggin

“Here's the bottom line: The secret world of intelligence--at least in the United States of America--represents everything wrong with the government, the industrial era,…

— Robert David Steele

We live in a culture in which intelligence is denied relevance altogether, in a search for radical innocence, or is defended as an instrument…

— Susan Sontag

Intelligence is power; it is the flame behind the spark of intrigue. Find out all the facts and stamp out the fire. Demystify.

— Tobsha Learner

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to…

— Aldrich Ames

Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.

— Jorge Luis Borges

You couldn't trust anyone or anything that belonged to the world of espionage.

— Anthony Horowitz

Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us…

— John le Carre

“Intelligence is power; it is the flame behind the spark of intrigue”

— Tobsha Learner

We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before,…

— John le Carre

The world has changed, the CIA is having to change, and again, the challenge for someone like me as a spy novelist is to…

— David Ignatius