The most effective deceit is the one which is never discovered.
Les experts sont des fanatiques. Ils ne résolvent rien! Ils sont à la solde du système qui les emploie. Ils le perpétuent. Quand nous nous ferons torturer, ce sera par des experts. Quand nous serons p...
Leamas saw. He saw the long road outsideRotterdam, the long straight road beside thedunes, and the stream of refugees movingalong it; saw the little aeroplane miles away,the procession stop and look t...
I’m a European, Peter. If I had a mission – if I was ever aware of one beyond our business with the enemy, it was to Europe. If I was heartless, I was heartless for Europe. If I had an unattainable id...
It’s as well to begin as one intends to continue, isn’t it?
It was his shoes, he noticed to his pleasure, that she most objected to; and he thought: bloody good, that's what shoes are for.
It is also the pardonable vanity of lonely people everywhere to assume that they have no counterparts.
I know their unstinted devotion to the free-market economy, provided it's their freedom and somebody else's economy.
I am afraid that as a nation we tend to over-organise. Abroad that passes for efficiency.
He’s going to save the world before he leaves it if it kills him.
Give these people a try, Smiley, they might have you and they pay badly enough to guarantee you decent company.
Either she knew exactly, or not at all, the power of each slight gesture she made.
Do you now have all the information you require?’ ‘No.’ ‘I envy you.
Ashe, Kiever, Peters; that was a progression in quality, in authority, which to Leamas was axiomatic of the hierarchy of an intelligence network. It was also, he suspected, a progression in ideology....
But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy.
É caminhando que aprendo o rumo do meu caminho
There was no future: there was only a continued slide into still more terrifying versions of the present.
What follows is a truthful account, as best I am able to provide it, of my role in the British deception operation, codenamed Windfall, that was mounted against the East German Intelligence Service (S...
What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?
What did theories matter any more? She wanted to say. The rats have taken over the ship, it's often as simple as that; the rest is narcissistic crap. It must be. (...) For exploitation read property a...