Quotes by : John le Carré

A lot of people see doubt as legitimate philosophical posture. They think of themselves in the middle,....

Our power knows no limits, yet we cannot find food for a starving child, or a home for a refugee. Our....

To dream in doctrines, how tidy!

He knew how intelligent men could be broken by the stupidity of their superiors, how weeks of patient....

Wives?" she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he....

By what route the infant Hansen found his way to the Jesuits, the file did not relate. Perhaps the mother....

A man who lives a part, not to others but alone, is exposed to obvious psychological dangers. In itself....

... in moments of crisis our thoughts do not run consecutively but rather sweep over us in waves or intuition....

A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter what....

This is a war," Lemas replied. "It's graphic and unpleasant because it's fought on a tiny scale, at close....