You don’t buy photographs from Otto Leipzig, you don’t buy Degas from Signor Benati, follow me? Do
There was a pause. Mendel said: 'It's the devil you don't know that gets you.
Then the people in this prison are intellectuals? The woman smiled. Yes, she said, they are reactionaries who call themselves progressive: they defend the individual against the state. Do you know wha...
The novel’s merit, then—or its offence, depending where you stood—was not that it was authentic, but that it was credible. The bad dream turned out to be one that a lot of people in the world were sha...
The embassy’s front door was of bulletproof steel lined with a veneer of English oak. You attained it by touching a button in a silent lift. The royal crest, in this air-conditioned stillness, suggest...
That’s the point, isn’t it: the opposite of love isn’t hate. It’s lethargy.
Strange to wander in the mist, each is alone. No tree knows his neighbour. Each is alone.
Sometimes she thought Alec was right – you believed in things because you needed to; what you believed in had no value of its own, no function.
Promise to build a chap a house, he won't believe you. Threaten to burn his place down, he'll do what you tell him. Fact of life.
Les mauvaises langues ont l'habitude de voir leurs cobayes tout en noir ou tout en blanc et de leur attribuer des défauts ou des mobiles que le style sténographique de la conversation peut aisément su...
It’s the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies? Who can smell out the fox without running with him?
It was like feeding a small child. You couldn't over load the spoon.
It was him taught Idi Amin’s lads how to extract voluntary confessions with the aid of an electric cattle-prod. Our chum likes them English and he likes them with a dirty past. He
Il savait qu'un être intelligent pouvait être neutralisé par la stupidité de ses supérieurs, et des semaines d'un travail patient, acharné - vingt-quatre heures sur vingt-quatre - annihilées par ce ge...
I would say that since the war, our methods-out and those of the opposition-have become much the same. I mean you can't be less ruthless than the opposition simply because your government's 'policy' i...
I have destroyed him with the weapons I abhorred, and they are his. We have crossed each other's frotiers, we are the no-men of this no-man's land.
He hated to be alone, but people bored him. Being alone was like being tired, but unable
He hated to be alone, but people bored him. Being alone was like being tired, but unable to sleep.
For Heaven’s sake, Adrian, do you think Intelligence consists of unassailable philosophical truths? Does every priest have to prove that Christ was born on Christmas Day?
Few men can resist expressing their appetites when they're making a fantasy about themselves.