I am afraid that as a nation we tend to over-organise. Abroad that passes for efficiency.
He hated to be alone, but people bored him.
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.
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.
A committee is an animal with four back legs. But
Turned on the BBC World News and switched it off again. Half-truths. Quarter-truths. What the world really knows about itself, it doesn't dare say.
There was no future: there was only a continued slide into still more terrifying versions of the present.
Sentries
Band above her and calls to somebody she
When people panic, he said, they panic upward. They make for lifts, escalators, stairs, any way to go up, not down. By the time the boys go in, anyone who is not too petrified to move is in the attic.
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...
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 most peaceble people will do the most terrible things when they're pushed.
The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.
Tell Max that it concerns the Sandman. Tell him I have two proofs and can bring them with me.
One more consideration also weighed with Smiley, though in his paper he is too gentlemanly to mention it. A lot of ghosts walked in those post-fall days, and one of them was a fear that, buried somewh...
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’ departure caused only a ripple on the water; with other winds and the changing of the seasons it was soon forgotten.