The Constant Gardener Quotes

“Tessa distinguished absolutely between pain observed and pain shared. Pain observed is journalistic pain. It’s diplomatic pain. It’s television pain, over as soon as you switch off your beastly set. Those who watch suffering and do nothing about it, in her book, were little better than those who inflicted it. They were the bad Samaritans.”
― John le Carré, The Constant Gardener

“The most peaceble people will do the most terrible things when they're pushed.”
― John le Carré, The Constant Gardener

“In a civilized country you can never tell.”
― John le Carré, The Constant Gardener

“Why am I despising you when I'm about to change your life?”
― John le Carré, The Constant Gardener

“You're history, Donohue. You think countries run the fucking world! Go back to fucking Sunday school. It's 'God save our multinational' they're singing these days.”
― John le Carré, The Constant Gardener

“He sees passion in her gray eyes, and it scares him as all passion scares him, his own included.”
― John le Carré, The Constant Gardener

“Arseholes who are expert at making something out of nothing [...] appeared equally capable of making nothing out of something”
― John le Carré, The Constant Gardener

“more cruelly: he feared her faith because, as a fully paid-up pessimist, he knew he had none.”
― John le Carré, The Constant Gardener

“Pain observed is journalistic pain. It's diplomatic pain. It's television pain, over as soon as you switch off your beastly set.”
― John le Carré, The Constant Gardener

“Over them, in a swaying, muddy mist, hung the flies, snoring on a single note.”
― John le Carré, The Constant Gardener

“I do not betray the confidence of friends and I require you to respect that fact and admire me for it. Enormously and all the time. Where secrets are concerned, compared to me, the grave is a chatterbox”
― John le Carré , The Constant Gardener

“Dans le péché originel au moins, je trouve qu’il y a une certaine idée de l’innocence. Mais où est l’innocence aujourd’hui, Tessa”
― John Le Carré, La Constance du jardinier

“the ludicrous posture of Western liberals who did not allow their ignorance to stand in the way of their intolerance;”
― John le Carré, The Constant Gardener

“Tessa was that rarest thing: a lawyer who believes in justice.”
― John le Carré, The Constant Gardener

“uno:”
― John le Carré, El jardinero fiel

“Regla número uno: nunca deben exteriorizarse los sentimientos,”
― John le Carré, El jardinero fiel

“It’s the new millennium. People must be allowed to screw up their lives as they see fit.”
― John le Carré, The Constant Gardener