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Quotes of Movie: "Smiley's People" [1982]

  • George Smiley:
    In my time, Peter Guillam, I've seen Whitehall skirts go up and come down again. I've listened to all the excellent argument for doing nothing, and reaped the consequent frightful harvest. I've watched people hop up and down and call it progress. I've seen good men go to the wall and the idiots get promoted with a dazzling regularity. All I'm left with is me and thirty-odd years of cold war without the option.



    Peter Guillam:
    So what does that mean in little words?



    George Smiley:
    It means that if a rogue elephant, to use Saul Enderby's happy phrase, charges at me out of the thicket of my past and gives me a second shot at it, I intend to shoot it dead - but with the minimum of force.

  • George Smiley:
    [on Grigoriev] So, how conscious is he?



    Toby Esterhase:
    George, he's Russian, OK? The Russians think the butterflies are spying on them.

  • Lauder Strickland:
    Oh dammit, George, that whole era is dead.



    George Smiley:
    And so is Vladimir! And I wish to God we'd got half his courage and one tenth his integrity.

  • Saul Enderby:
    It isn't some wicked Bolshie plot, is it, George, to lure us to our ultimate destruction?



    George Smiley:
    I'm afraid that we're no longer worth the candle, Saul.

  • Toby Esterhase:
    You want a picture of Karla, George? I get you one more up to date than that, authentic provenance, no question.



    George Smiley:
    Thank you, Toby. I'm only interested in the original.

  • Toby Esterhase:
    Grigoriev has a salad. She has steak and chips, glass of beer, and a slice of cake. George, the guy will fold, believe me! You never had a wife like that.



    George Smiley:
    No, I don't think I ever did.



    Toby Esterhase:
    You think he wants to be locked up in a two-room flat in Moscow with that bitch for the rest of his life? Ha hah, don't worry.

  • Toby Esterhase:
    At a certain age a man's got to be what he deserves. I spent fifteen years at the Circus trying to be an English gentleman. You know what I am now? A cheap Austro-Hungarian in expensive clothes. I've come home.

  • Ferguson:
    I'm still on the side of the angels.



    George Smiley:
    I didn't know we had any angels.

  • Toby Esterhase:
    First we'd take the document to Max. That's you, George. Max would know its meaning, Max would reward us. Gifts, promotion, medals, maybe we'd get lunch with the Queen. Only problem was, Vladimir didn't know you were on the shelf and the Circus had joined the Boy Scouts.

  • Toby Esterhase:
    You remember the first rule of retirement, George? No moonlighting, no fooling with loose ends, no private enterprise, ever. You remember who preaches this rule, at Sarratt, in the corridors? George Smiley did. Quote, "When it's over, it's over. Pull down the shutters, go home," unquote. We're over, George. We've got no license. They don't want us anymore.

  • [Lacon is handling an antique book on Smiley's desk]



    George Smiley:
    Oliver, would you mind leaving that alone? It's not mine, and it's worth half the gross national product.

  • Oliver Lacon:
    Funny about children. Beggars keep you awake when they're there, and when they're not you can't sleep.

  • Connie Sachs:
    Is that booze you're toting in your pocket, or a bloody great gun?



    George Smiley:
    It's fatal either way.



    Connie Sachs:
    Oh, goody, let's have lots!

  • George Smiley:
    What was it you used to say? "I wouldn't trust Saul Enderby any further than I could throw Oliver Lacon."

  • Connie Sachs:
    George Smiley, the Chelsea Pensioner, God help us! Fought every war since Thermopylae, hot, cold and deep-frozen! Give it up. Be like the old fool here. Grab yourself a bit of love and wait for Armageddon.

  • [Smiley sees Peter Guillam's Porsche for the first time]



    George Smiley:
    What a perfectly revolting little car! How ever will we all fit in?

  • Peter Guillam:
    It's bloody typical of London, not telling me you're out here. I mean, that's par for the course, these days. I usually pick it up from the Queen's Messenger six weeks after the event! Not like in your day.



    George Smiley:
    I'm sorry to have to tell you, Peter, I'm working on my own these days.



    Peter Guillam:
    Bloody hell, George! I must say, you do put a strain on friendship, you do! You mean I just called out the entire Emergency Service in Paris to assist you in a piece of private enterprise?



    George Smiley:
    Find a phone box, ring your wife, if there's anybody in the house tell her to get rid of them. I'm sure she's understanding.



    Peter Guillam:
    George, she's pregnant! Forgive us, Madame.



    Madame Ostrakova:
    You are abducting me?



    Peter Guillam:
    Oh, no, Madame.



    Madame Ostrakova:
    I'm a little disappointed, Monsieur.



    Peter Guillam:
    The Ambassador's going to love this, he really is!

  • George Smiley:
    It will cause great embarrassment to the man who sent them.



    Claus Kretzschmar:
    Will it kill him?



    George Smiley:
    It will do worse than kill him.

  • Toby Esterhase:
    Don't do that again, you hear me?



    Anton Grigoriev:
    I don't speak to scum like you! What are you, a Polish? Magyar? I don't speak to anti-Party elements! I am Russian!



    Toby Esterhase:
    Don't do it again.

  • Toby Esterhase:
    George, do me a favor, okay? You want a Hungarian babysitter someday, call me. You go messing around with creeps like Kirov and Leipzig, you better have a creep like Toby look after you. You're an old spy in a hurry, George. You used to say they were the worst.



    George Smiley:
    Oh they are, Toby, they are.

  • Connie Sachs:
    Oh, stop flirting, George.

  • Ann Smiley:
    I'm all you've got, George. I'm all there is; there isn't anything else. I want to stop looking. I want you to do the same. Oh, for God's sake, let's pull down the shutters and be a boring married couple.



    George Smiley:
    I came to tell you that, while I am away - well, it's widely known within the intelligence fraternity - on all sides - that you used to be dear to me. So you and I are both at risk while I'm away.



    Ann Smiley:
    And afterwards?


    [long pause]



    George Smiley:
    Goodbye.

  • Connie Sachs:
    George Smiley, born in captivity.

  • Peter Guillam:
    Do they get a special price, too?



    Toby Esterhase:
    For George, they do it for nothing.

  • Toby Esterhase:
    Grigorieva got herself a driving license two months ago. And she's terrible! Terrible, like lousy. You know what Pauli Skordeno says to me? He says, "Toby, I need danger money just to follow that woman."

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