Beyond the typhoon shelters, ships slid past them, lighted buildings on the march, and the junks hobbled in their wakes. Inland, the Island whined and clanged and throbbed, and the huge slums twinkled...
And your wife, she's in the pink and so on? His expressions were also boyish. Very bonny, thank you, said Smiley, trying gallantly to respond in kind.
I always say South America’s the only place where you cut a gentleman his suit one week and see his statue wearing it the next.
His master plan was already dead, as his master plans usually were.
Did I fuck her? No, I bloody well didn’t. I made mute, frenzied love to her in pitch darkness for six life-altering hours, in an explosion of tension and lust between two bodies that had desired each...
Cyril, church warden and lead tenor in the choir, lives with mother, banned from unsupervised contact with schoolchildren; Harold, drunk dentist, early retirement, pretty thatched cottage off the Bodm...
But she did not say it, she kept rigidly silent. Ostrakova had already sworn to herself that she would restrain both her quick temper and her quick tongue, and she now physically enjoined herself to t...
Are you going to eat that? she inquired, indicating the food on the desk. Liz shook her head. Then I must, she declared, with a grotesque attempt at reluctance. They have given you a potato. You must...
An undertaker contemplates his funeral, the rich man his destitution, the gaoler his imprisonment, the debauchee his impotence. An actor’s greatest terror, I am told, is to watch the theatre empty its...
A man who lives apart, not to others but alone, is exposed to obvious psychological dangers. In itself, the practice of deception is not particularly exacting; it is a matter of experience, of profess...
Arthur Braithwaite, known to Louisa and the children as God. And all right, strictly speaking Braithwaite did not exist. Why should he? Not every god has to exist in order to do his job.
Es un trabajo importante, siempre que creas en los fines y no te preocupen demasiado los medios.
The defended softness, that’s what I look for in the gals.
Pain observed is journalistic pain. It's diplomatic pain. It's television pain, over as soon as you switch off your beastly set.
Her instinct was to defend, to hoard the treasures of her life, to build about herself the symbols of normal existence.
He was witnessing an insane relay race in which each contestant ran faster and longer than the last, arriving nowhere but his own destruction
Dresden: of all German cities, Smiley’s favourite. He had loved its architecture, its odd jumble of medieval and classical buildings, sometimes reminiscent of Oxford, its cupolas, towers, and spires,...
Dieter had a theory that was pure Faust. Thought alone was valueless. You must act for thought to become effective. He used to say that the greatest mistake man ever made was to distinguish between th...
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 it's political.This was his standard joke, calculat...
A terrorist for Karen is someone who has a bomb but no aeroplane.Ch. 4