348 Quotes by John le Carré

I do believe very much in movie as a one-man-show. I think that where I've watched movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.

What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?

I began writing when I was still in the British Foreign Service, and it was then understood that even if you wrote about butterfly collecting, you used another name.

We've had enough." He took back the report and jammed it under his arm. "We've had a bellyful, in fact." "And like everyone who's had enough," said Control as Alleline noisily left the room, "he wants more.

It's death, that's what I'm suffering from. The systematic encroachment of the big D.

I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.

Smiley was soaked to the skin and God as a punishment had removed all taxis from the face of London.

People are very secretive - secret even from themselves.

I mean, you can't be less ruthless than the opposition simply because your government's policy is benevolent, can you now?