Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided.
John le CarréI once heard someone say morality was method. Do you hold with that? I suppose you wouldn't. You would say that morality was vested in the aim, I expect. Difficult to know what one's aims are, that's the trouble, specially if you're British.
John le CarréStichwörter: morality britain british
You should have died when I killed you.
John le CarréThe driver was holding open the rear door. He was young and blond, a boy in his prime.
John le CarréAnd we dress, sir --?" he murmured, feeling Osnard's gaze burning the nape of his neck. "Most of my gentlemen seem to favour left these days. I don't think it's political."
This was his standard joke, calculated to raise a laugh even with the most sedate of his customers. Not with Osnard apparently.
"Never know where the bloody thing is. Bobs about like a windsock," he replied dismissively.
Stichwörter: humour
Todd and Larry were Quinn’s people. They were clean-limbed and pretty and, for a man of my age, ludicrously youthful.
John le CarréIt is only when he speaks German, as now, that he allows himself to lament the enslavement of the world's downtrodden classes. "We cannot live in a bubble, Mr. Mundy. Comfortable ignorance is not a solution. In German student societies that I was not permitted to join, they made a toast: 'Better to be a salamander, and live in the fire.
John le CarréStichwörter: politics absolute-friends
Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.
John le CarréStichwörter: politics absolute-friends
To possess another language, Charlemagne tells us, is to possess another soul. German is such a language. Once you have it in your head, you can go there anytime, you can close the door, you have a refuge.
John le CarréStichwörter: absolute-friends
Do you know what love is? I'll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray.
John le CarréStichwörter: love betrayal espionage
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