Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided.

John le Carré

Mots clés treason spy



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I 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 Carré

Mots clés morality britain british



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You should have died when I killed you.

John le Carré

Mots clés life murder wish



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The driver was holding open the rear door. He was young and blond, a boy in his prime.

John le Carré


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And 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.

John le Carré

Mots clés humour



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Todd and Larry were Quinn’s people. They were clean-limbed and pretty and, for a man of my age, ludicrously youthful.

John le Carré


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It 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 Carré

Mots clés politics absolute-friends



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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 Carré

Mots clés politics absolute-friends



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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 Carré

Mots clés absolute-friends



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Do you know what love is? I'll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray.

John le Carré

Mots clés love betrayal espionage



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