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A Perfect Spy QUOTES

A Perfect Spy QUOTES

1 " Sometimes we have to do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers. "

― John le Carré , A Perfect Spy

2 " You could be the perfect spy. All you need is a cause. "

― John le Carré , A Perfect Spy

3 " He was learning to live on several planes at once. The art of it was to forget everything except the ground you stood on and the face you spoke from at that moment. "

― John le Carré , A Perfect Spy

4 " 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. "

― John le Carré , A Perfect Spy

5 " A vida tem de ser paga. A vida é fazer-se o que tem de ser feito, mesmo que se morra por causa disso. "

― John le Carré , A Perfect Spy

6 " And what am I thinking? I am thinking that a man who cannot speak clearly cannot think clearly. "

― John le Carré , A Perfect Spy

7 " Mas em diplomacia nada é duradouro, nada é absoluto e uma conspiração entre assassinos não é motivo para interromper o fluxo da conversa "

― John le Carré , A Perfect Spy

8 " Yes, well, I always assume that businessmen are crooks, don't you, Harry? I'm sure we all do. "

― John le Carré , A Perfect Spy

9 " When two people have decided to go to bed with each other, what passes between them before the event is a matter of form rather than of content. "

― John le Carré , A Perfect Spy

10 " Yet in diplomacy nothing lasts, nothing is absolute, a conspiracy to murder is no grounds for endangering the flow of conversation. "

― John le Carré , A Perfect Spy

11 " In life, says Proust, we end up doing whatever we do second best. "

― John le Carré , A Perfect Spy

12 " Against the wall the old black and white television, and the agonising sofa for watching it. "There's nothing like a little discomfort," Magnus liked to say, primly, "for deciding whether a program is worth its salt. "

― John le Carré , A Perfect Spy

13 " photographs of her bearded brother and solemn sisters in black hats and silver frames which stood like tiny polished gravestones on her dressing-table. "

― John le Carré , A Perfect Spy

14 " The privileged English assets of good manners and bad learning have never been more to his advantage "

― John le Carré , A Perfect Spy

15 " If love is whatever we can still betray, remember that I betrayed you on a lot of days. "

― John le Carré , A Perfect Spy

16 " God’s waiting room’ is what they call Palm Springs. It has one swimming pool for every five inhabitants, and lies a couple of hours’ drive from the biggest killing factories in the world. Its industries are charity and death. "

― John le Carré , A Perfect Spy

17 " Is she married?” “You know I don’t sleep with married women unless they absolutely insist. "

― John le Carré , A Perfect Spy

18 " תמיד יש ברנש אחד גבוה יותר בסולם, לא, סר מגנוס? אפילו כשנדמה לך שאתה בפסגה. ואח"כ, כשאתה כבר מגיע לפסגה, אתה מוצא אותם שוב מתחתיך, ממטירים מהלומות על מגפיך. ככה זה בשיטה כשלנו. "

― John le Carré , A Perfect Spy

19 " Baptists do not kneel before God, Tom. "

― John le Carré , A Perfect Spy