I do not betray the confidence of friends and I require you to respect that fact and admire me for it. Enormously and all the time. Where secrets are concerned, compared to me, the grave is a chatterb...
Arseholes who are expert at making something out of nothing [...] appeared equally capable of making nothing out of something
In the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery...
He has the gift of quiet.
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
—Vive de la inteligencia de sus subordinados. En fin, quizá en esto consista la gran virtud del jefe, en nuestros días.
The Soviet Knight is dying inside his armour. He is a secondary power like you British. He can start a war but cannot continue one and cannot win one. Believe me.
Some people keep canaries, some people join the Party,
It is said that men condemned to death are subject to sudden moments of elation; as if, like moths in the fire, their destruction were coincidental with attainment. Following directly upon his decisio...
Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue, dear man. In an imperfect world, I fear it’s the best we can manage.
He had seen it, even in men who had undergone a complete ideological reversal, who in the secret hours of the night had found a new creed, and alone, compelled by the internal power of their convictio...
Everyone who is not happy must be shot.
CIA Interrogator:Have you ever met any jazz musicians you would describe, or who would describe themselves, as anarchists?Bartholomew 'Barley' Scott Blair:Hmmm... ah, there was a trombone player, Wilf...
History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs...
Sauntering
Age.
What that judge did is immoral. Here in Panama when we bribe somebody we expect loyalty.
They might have you, and they pay badly enough to guarantee you decent company.
The pallor of his eyes caught you by surprise. You expected more challenge from him, heavier shadows. And
He sees passion in her gray eyes, and it scares him as all passion scares him, his own included.