Best quotes by John le Carre on World

Checkout quotes by John le Carre on World

  • A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
    - John le Carre
  • Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.
    - John le Carre
  • If you're growing up in a chaotic world without reason, your instinct is to become a performer and control the circumstances around you. You lead from weakness into strength; you have an undefended back.
    - John le Carre
  • I think, increasingly, despite what we are being told is an ever more open world of communication, there is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.
    - John le Carre
  • I've had nothing to do with the intelligence world since I left it, in any shade or variety.
    - John le Carre