Quotes About Intrigue

The central plank of the deception was to be nailed down by planting false information through the double agents. Cockade was not quite the grand roll of the dice envisaged by Masterman, but it was the most ambitious gamble so far.

The policemen agreed they were living with a most peculiar fellow. One moment he was reading classical literature in the original French and quoting Tennyson, and the next he would be discussing the best way to blow up a train.

Sam Brewer enjoyed discussing Middle Eastern politics with Philby; Philby enjoyed sleeping with his wife.

The word most consistently used to describe Kim Philby was "charm", that intoxicating, beguiling and occasionally lethal English quality.

They also reminded me of a story Dallas Fed president Richard Fisher included in one of his speeches about the early nineteenth-century French diplomat Talleyrand and his archrival, Prince Metternich of Austria. When Talleyrand died, Metternich was reported to have said, "I wonder what he meant by that?" It seemed that no matter what I said or how plainly I said it, the markets tried to divine some hidden meaning.

to gauge their interest—just in case.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

Hunt's wife, after all, had died in questionable circumstances,

La imaginación tiene sus propios motivos y nos los oculta.

Brenda Ruttledge —dijo Quirke—. Una de las enfermeras.

Patología, Wilkins y Sinclair, sus ayudantes, intercambiaron

Conor Carrington,

Maggie, la criada,

Q: What's the key to suspense? A: I'll tell you later.

a black site, a night chapel, spoiled land, a kind of charging station for evil. "They're all over the place. The Paris catacombs, Guantánamo Bay, Lake Powell, the Bellagio, the House on the Rock, the Golden Gate Bridge." There are at least two others in Oregon alone. The Rajneesh compound and the Lava River Cave.

I found myself in the position of that child in a story who noticed a bit of string and - out of curiosity - pulled on it to discover that it was just the tip of a very long and increasingly thick string...and kept bringing out wonders beyond reckoning

Figuring out why people who choose not to do something don't in fact do it is like attempting to interview the elves who live inside your refrigerator but come out only when the light is off.

Fast-paced from start to finish, 'The Honourable Schoolboy' is fired by le Carre's conviction regarding evil done and its consequences.

People don't watch TV only to relate to stuff. They also watch to find out about a world they can't relate to.

I sometimes feel I want to release an album without people knowing it is me.

You can watch any Hitchcock film and be blown away.

Who was the real Hitchcock? I interviewed him once and haven't a clue.

When you watch a Hitchcock movie, you feel like learning back because there's a master in control.

I think the more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.