Tell Max that it concerns the Sandman. Tell him I have two proofs and can bring them with me.
Reason as motive, or reason as logic, or reason as a way of life?
I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return. —W. H. AUDEN
He became a solitary, belonging to that tragic class of active men prematurely deprived of activity; swimmers barred from the water or actors banished from the stage.
Guns have their own silence. It is the silence of the dead to come.
God is in his Heaven and the first night was a wow.
Forgive me. Sometimes an answer can vary with a context, if you follow me
For a long moment, while Brock stood off observing them, Ned and Barley appraised one another as only Englishmen can who are of the same height and class and shape of head.
Espionage is not a cricket game
Charlie alone knew he was a ghost.
Austerity pleased her—it gave her the comfort of sacrifice.
Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even,...
Who’s an ex-diplomat of all people to complain if the wrapping is prettier than what’s inside?
Must be
Urgent equals ephemeral, and ephemeral equals unimportant.
There is no one better than a good Englishman and no one worse than a bad one. I have observed you. I think you are a good one. Mr Pine, do you know Richard Roper?
The tortured are a class apart. You can imagine – just – where they’ve been, but never what they’ve brought back.
The most peaceble people will do the most terrible things when they're pushed.
The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.
The monstrosity of this, reaching Smiley through a thickening wall of spiritual exhaustion, left him momentarily speechless.