Old Boys Quotes

“...and I was reminded....of the everday boredom of a life in espionage. One is always waiting for someone who does not show up,for something that does not happen.”
― Charles McCarry, Old Boys

“Suddenly, in the here and now, everything depended on the houbara bustard.”
― Charles McCarry, Old Boys

“No wonder the summer solstice had been such a fun day in northern Europe before Christian missionaries arrived from the sunny south. If priests had not driven sex underground, what would the north have been like? Would art have flourished in the absence of sexual repression? What about artillery and fortification? The Reformation? The Thirty Years War? The French Revolution? The final perfection of murder as blood sport at Verdun and Dresden and in the Gulag?

In short, where would we be without Jesus?”
― Charles McCarry, Old Boys