Smileys People Quotes
Oliver Lacon: God, how I hate autumn.
George Smiley: How's...?
Oliver Lacon: Abandoned me, dammit. Ran off with her pesky riding instructor, blast it. Left me with the children. Oh, the girls are all farmed out to boarding school, thank God!
George Smiley: I'm sorry.
George Smiley: I don't see why should you be? Not your wife.
George Smiley: How's...?
Oliver Lacon: Abandoned me, dammit. Ran off with her pesky riding instructor, blast it. Left me with the children. Oh, the girls are all farmed out to boarding school, thank God!
George Smiley: I'm sorry.
George Smiley: I don't see why should you be? Not your wife.
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Saul Enderby: Oh, that reminds me, George. Did you twist that young fellow Mostyn's tail, by any chance?
George Smiley: Whatever do you mean?
Saul Enderby: Yes, I thought so. That's why I sacked him. Tried to sell him to the BBC, but they wouldn't have him. What's he up to now, Strickland?
Lauder Strickland: He's in retreat, sir. Joined an order of Franciscan monks near Ipswich.
Saul Enderby: Ipswich, eh? Cold bloody spot to pray.
George Smiley: Whatever do you mean?
Saul Enderby: Yes, I thought so. That's why I sacked him. Tried to sell him to the BBC, but they wouldn't have him. What's he up to now, Strickland?
Lauder Strickland: He's in retreat, sir. Joined an order of Franciscan monks near Ipswich.
Saul Enderby: Ipswich, eh? Cold bloody spot to pray.
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Saul Enderby: The point is, I suppose, having set up his apparatus, trained it to accept his iron rule, Karla didn't dare use it for this deal, that's your point?
George Smiley: That's my point.
Saul Enderby: Ergo, we're dealing with a bunch of ninnies, not red-toothed hoods.
George Smiley: Not ninnies, just ordinary people.
Saul Enderby: You mean hoods aren't?
George Smiley: Karla was under stress. He had to take risks.
Saul Enderby: Like bumping chaps off.
George Smiley: That was more recent.
Saul Enderby: You're bloody forgiving these days, aren't you, George?
George Smiley: Am I? If you say so.
Saul Enderby: Bloody meek, too!
George Smiley: That's my point.
Saul Enderby: Ergo, we're dealing with a bunch of ninnies, not red-toothed hoods.
George Smiley: Not ninnies, just ordinary people.
Saul Enderby: You mean hoods aren't?
George Smiley: Karla was under stress. He had to take risks.
Saul Enderby: Like bumping chaps off.
George Smiley: That was more recent.
Saul Enderby: You're bloody forgiving these days, aren't you, George?
George Smiley: Am I? If you say so.
Saul Enderby: Bloody meek, too!
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Toby Esterhase: At a certain age a man's got to be what he deserves. I spent fifteen years at the Circus trying to be an English gentleman. You know what I am now? A cheap Austro-Hungarian in expensive clothes. I've come home.
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Toby Esterhase: George, do me a favor, okay? You want a Hungarian babysitter someday, call me. You go messing around with creeps like Kirov and Leipzig, you better have a creep like Toby look after you. You're an old spy in a hurry, George. You used to say they were the worst.
George Smiley: Oh they are, Toby, they are.
George Smiley: Oh they are, Toby, they are.
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[on Grigoriev]
George Smiley: So which way will he jump when we hit him?
Toby Esterhase: Burning, George, that's always a hazard, know what I mean? Some guys get heroic and want to die for their countries suddenly. Other guys roll over and lie still the moment you put the arm on them. Burning, that touches the stubbornness in certain people.
George Smiley: So which way will he jump when we hit him?
Toby Esterhase: Burning, George, that's always a hazard, know what I mean? Some guys get heroic and want to die for their countries suddenly. Other guys roll over and lie still the moment you put the arm on them. Burning, that touches the stubbornness in certain people.
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