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Quotes of Tailor Movie: "Tinker
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If there's no deal, you'll have to tell Control to get stuffed! I've paid, you see, you know that! I don't know what the hell I've bought with it, but I've paid a packet. Poznan, Budapest, Prague, back to Poznan - have you ever been to Poznan? - Sofia, Kiev, two bloody nervous breakdowns and still between the shafts! That's big money at any age. Even yours. Fit, George? Natter? Garden? Super. What the hell are you doing here, you pariah? I hate the real world. I like the Circus and all my lovely boys. | |
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Topicality is always suspect. Let me be blunt... Toby Esterhase: Not *your* style, George. You're an educated sort of a swine. "An artist is a bloke who can hold two fundamentally opposing views and still function." Who dreamed that one up? George Smiley: Scott Fitzgerald. Roy Bland: Well, Fitzgerald knew a thing or two. And I'm definitely functioning. As a good socialist, I'm going where the money is; as a good capitalist, I'm sticking with the revolution, because if you can't beat it, spy on it. Merlin would do if he were my source, wouldn't he? If dazzling bloody Bill here pottered along and said he'd hooked a whacking big fish and wanted to play him alone and sod the expense, what would happen then? Control would say, "That's very nifty of you, Bill boy. You do it just the way you want, Bill Boy. Have some filthy jasmine tea." Peter Guillam, you may not be aware of this, but I am posessed of an extremely forgiving nature. I positively seethe with goodwill. Ultra, ultra-sensitive, in fact, Peter. Peter Guillam: In that case, Toby, I'll try and keep my mouth ultra, ultra-shut. [quoting an old letter from Bill Haydon about Jim Prideaux] He has that heavy quiet that commands. He's my other half. Between us we'd make one marvelous man. He asks nothing better than to be in my company or that of my wicked, divine friends, and I'm vastly tickled by the compliment. He's virgin, about eight foot tall, and built by the same firm that did Stonehenge. The Minister's main concern is this: in his own words, how much porcelain gets broken at the end of the day? George Smiley: What? Oliver Lacon: I'm talking about scandal. If we unmask the mole, will the Russians turn around and reveal to the press of the world how they've made fools of us all? George Smiley: Oh, I don't think so. If you make your enemy look stupid, you lose the justification for taking him on. Oliver Lacon: Yes, I've *told* him *that*, George. Well, let's not pretend we're not nervous. I still believe the secret services are the only real expression of a nation's character. I suppose your wife will have to be among them. I know you told me she and Haydon are over and done with now, as you said. There's always the unknown factor in matters of the heart. I'm thinking about the future - any possible further contact - and if Ann doesn't know - she does meet so many different sorts of people. George Smiley: [Smiling] She gets around. Oliver Lacon: I'm sorry, George. George Smiley: Not at all, I quite take your point. Ann must let us know of any approach directly or indirectly made by or on behalf of... Oliver Lacon: Exactly. George Smiley: - or even merely concerning Bill Haydon. Oliver Lacon: Thank you. George Smiley: I was going to tell her anyway. Love to Ann! *Everybody's* love to Ann! Merlin is the fruit of a long cultivation by certain people in the circus. People who are bound to me as I am to them. People who are not at all entertained by the failure rate about this place. There's been too much blown, too much lost, too much wasted. Too many scandals. I've said so many times, but I might as well have talked to the wind for all the heed he paid me. Control: "He" means me, George. Percy Alleline: The ordinary principles of tradecraft and security have gone to the wall in this service. It's all "divide and rule," stimulated from the top. Control: Me again. Percy Alleline: We're losing our livelihood. Our self-respect. We've had enough. We've had a bellyful, in fact. [Alleline exits] Control: And like everybody who's ever had enough, he wants more! George Smiley: There are three of them, and Alleline. "There are three of them, and Alleline." Control's words. He meant Operation Witchcraft. Merlin's minders or inventors, or programmers, or marionettes... or, what? And now there's a Witchcraft committee! The Minister's in the chair, Alleline's vice-chairman. Merlin's become an industry, it's THE industry and I'm not employed! George Smiley: You won't even read Alleline's reports. Control: I haven't time! Buying their way in with counterfeit money, tell them that. Tell them anything, I need time! There are three of them, and Alleline. Sweat them, George, bully them, any damn thing, give them whatever they eat, I need time! What happened tonight, George? [silence] Peter Guillam: How's Ann? George Smiley: Roddy Martindale happened tonight. Why do I permit it? I tell myself it's for politeness' sake. It's not, it's weakness. And the fact that I've nothing better to do... My wife's fine, thank you. Listen Jim, we've got to have codenames for them. D'you remember the nursery rhyme "Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor"? Finish it. Jim Prideaux: Richman, poorman, beggerman, thief. Control: Percy Alleline, Director of Operations: "Tinker". "Tinker". Bill Haydon, Head of Personnel: "Tailor". Roy Bland, Head of Iron Curtain Networks: "Soldier". We leave out "Sailor", too much like "Tailor", could be misheard. Jim Prideaux: Richman? Control: Don't like it. Sounds like police work - fraud, Swiss banks stuff. Toby Esterhase, Top Lamplighter, our exquisite head sleuth: "Poorman?" [Control chuckles] Control: Yes...”Poorman". And George Smiley, my devoted deputy: "Beggerman". All I want from you, Jim is one... one word. Just ONE codename. If you have to scrawl it on the front door of the Embassy in Prague or phone our resident hood and shout it in his ear before you go underground... if there's some kind of fumble and that's necessary... just give me that one word. I've been reviewing my situation in the last half-hour of hell, and I've come to a very grave decision. After a lifetime of living by my wits, and on my memory, I shall give myself up full-time to the profession of forgetting. I'm going to put an end to some emotional attachments with have long outlived their purpose. Namely the Circus, this house, my whole past. I shall sell up and buy a cottage, in the Cotswolds, I think. Steeple Aston sounds about right. Do I need overnight things? Peter Guillam: I'm not taking any. George Smiley: There I shall establish myself as a mild eccentric. Discursive, withdrawn, but posessing one or two lovable habits, such as muttering to myself as I bumble along innocent pavements. I shall become an oak of my own generation. [about the car's rear door] Open it. Barak: No, you must sit next to me. It's safer. Jim Prideaux: Like hell! Barak: Also more democratic. | |
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