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"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" Quotes
A retired spy is called back to uncover a Soviet mole within British intelligence.
Quotes
I'm a European, George. I'm for Europe. The Europe where Bonaparte is always on the march.
Betrayals are all the same. The people who commit them are all the same.
The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.
Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
There is no better disguise than a truth that, at first, seems ridiculous.
In the secret world, truth has no place.
The secret services have never been able to keep a secret for very long, except from each other.
We're not so different, you and me. We've both spent our lives looking for the weaknesses in one another.
Sometimes the best way to hide something is to make it the most obvious thing in the world.
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
