348 Quotes by John le Carré

I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention

He knew how intelligent men could be broken by the stupidity of their superiors, how weeks of patient work night and day could be cast aside by such a man

A lot of people see doubt as legitimate philosophical posture. They think of themselves in the middle, whereas of course really, they're nowhere.

Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.

He had the nerve not to drink in a University where you proved your manhood by being drunk most of your first year.

The vertical manThough we value noneBut the horizontal one.

He had arrived at the last, most hidden room of his search, he had prized open the most top-secret box, and it was empty. Tiger's secret was that he had no secret (p. 337).

Love is whatever you can still betray.

All men are born free: just not for long.