Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.
Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided.
I can't think of anybody worse to live with.
The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.
There was nothing dishonourable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be an oak of one's own generation.
But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state.