WORDS BY LE CARRE
“We do disagreeable things so that ordinary people here and elsewhere can sleep safely in their beds at night. Is that too romantic? Of course, we occasionally do very wicked things;” he grinned like a schoolboy.
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1963)
“Intelligence work has one moral law — it is justified by results.”
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1963)
“Do you know what love is? I’ll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray.”
The Looking Glass War (1965)
“In every operation there is an above the line and a below the line. Above the line is what you do by the book. Below the line is how you do the job.”
A Perfect Spy (1986)
London Daily Telegraph