Boadicea

“Gossip till the cows come home.”
― John le Carré

“Those who are treated as pariahs become pariahs—just as, to quote Auden, those to whom evil is done do evil in return.”
― John le Carré, The Little Drummer Girl

“Dash it all, she’s an actress! Don’t take her so seriously. Actors don’t have opinions, my dear chap, still less do actresses. They have moods. Fads. Poses. Twenty-four-hour passions. There’s a lot wrong with the world, dammit. Actors are absolute suckers for dramatic solutions. For all I know, by the time you get her out there, she’ll be Born Again!”
― John le Carré, The Little Drummer Girl

“and marvelled at the self-regarding irrelevance of the ruling English mind.”
― John le Carré, The Little Drummer Girl