Brought Quote by John le Carre

The merit of 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,' then - or its offence, depending where you stood - was not that…

— John le Carre

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether by political…

— John le Carre

In 'A Scanner Darkly,' as in 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,' all intersubjective relations devolve into webs of suspicion and betrayal.

— Mark Fisher

I wrote 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' at the age of 30 under intense, unshared personal stress and in extreme privacy.…

— John le Carre

Of John Le Carre's books, I've only read 'The Spy Who Came In From The Cold,' and I haven't read anything by Graham Greene,…

— Kim Young-ha

It was a charming fantasy of romantics that the spies would stop spying, that political conflict would end and politicians would tell the truth.…

— John le Carre

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 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

There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a desire for…

— Max Lerner

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

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

“We remained travelers, enclosed in the self, capable, possibly, of transforming ourselves in contact with alterity, but certainly not of experiencing it profoundly. We…

— Mathias Énard