Author: John le Carré

Cites

• NULL (2)
  • IN: Our Game (1995) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: He who thinks of the consequences cannot be brave.
    FROM: Ingush proverb, (None), Proverb, Russia
  • IN: A Perfect Spy (1986) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: A man who has two women loses his soul. But a man who has two houses loses his head.
    FROM: Proverb, (None), Proverb, NULL
• Bible (1)
  • IN: Our Game (1995) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Who gathers knowledge gathers pain.
    FROM: Bible, Ecclesiastes 1:18, (-165), Bible, NULL
• Anton Chekhov (1)
  • IN: Our Game (1995) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: If I were living in the Caucasus, I would be writing fairy tales there/
    FROM: To Dmitry Grigorovich, (1888), Letter, Russia
• Lewis Carroll (1)
  • IN: The Looking Glass War (1965) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I wouldn't mind being a Pawn, if only I might join.
    FROM: Through the Looking Glass, (1871), Novel, UK
• F. Tait (1)
  • IN: The Looking Glass War (1965) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The carrying of a very heavy weight such as a large suitcase or trunk, immediately before sending practice, renders the muscles of the forearm, wrist and fingers too insensitive to produce good Morse.
    FROM: Complete Morse Instructor, Pitman, (1944), Book, NULL
• Samuel Daniel (1)
  • IN: Our Kind of Traitor (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Princess in this case Do hate the traitor, though they love the treason.
    FROM: The Tragedie of Cleopatra, (1594), Poem, UK
• Oscar Wilde (1)
  • IN: A Delicate Truth (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
    FROM: Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, (1905), Book, Ireland
• Friedrich von Hugel (1)
  • IN: A Most Wanted Man (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The golden rule is, to help those we love to escape from us.
    FROM: Introduction to Letters from Baron Friedrich von Hugel to a niece, (1928), Book, Austria
• Dwight D. Eisenhower (1)
  • IN: The Russia House (1989) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of their way and let them have it.
    FROM: NULL, (1959), Conversation, US
• May Sarton (1)
  • IN: The Russia House (1989) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
    FROM: Journal of Solitude, (1973), Book, Belgium / US

Cited by

• Nina Berry (2)
  • IN: The Notorious Pagan Jones (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Berlin. What a garrison of spies! What a cabinet full of useless liquid secrets. What a playground for every alchemist, miracle worker, and rat piper that ever took up the cloak.
    FROM: The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, (1963), Novel, UK
• Brittany Cavallaro (2)
  • IN: The Last of August (2017) Mystery, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Do you know what love is? I'll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray.
    FROM: The Looking Glass War, (1965), Novel, UK
  • IN: The Last Day of August (2017) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Do you know what love is? I'll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray.
    FROM: The Looking Glass War, (1965), NULL, UK
• Shane Peacock (1)
  • IN: Double You (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: There's two sides to everyone.
    FROM: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, (1974), NULL, UK
• Lara Elena Donnelly (1)
  • IN: Amberlough (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: He wondered whether there was any love between human beings that did not rest upon some sort of self-delusion...
    FROM: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, (1974), Novel, UK