Quotes by : John le Carré

By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.

His intuition was luminous from the instant you met him. So was his intelligence. A lot of actors act....

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

We've had enough." He took back the report and jammed it under his arm. "We've had a bellyful, in fact.""And....

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....

The vertical manThough we value noneBut the horizontal one.

When a problem threatens to engulf you, there's nothing like irrelevant detail to keep your head above....

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

They might have you, and they pay badly enough to guarantee you decent company.