Smiley's People (TV Mini Series)

Gathering Friends (1982)

Alec Guinness: George Smiley

Quotes 

• George Smiley : That's the worry, you see. Cause and effect. Toby quarrels with Vladimir one day. Vladimir get shot with a Russian gun the next. In police terms that's what they call an embarrassing chain of events.

• 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!

• Connie Sachs : How's the demon wife?

  George Smiley : Flourishing, I gather.

  Connie Sachs : You gather? Wish you would gather. Either gather her up for good, or drop her down a hole.

• George Smiley : You know why they call Karla "The Sandman", don't you? He has a way of putting to sleep whomever gets too close to him.

• George Smiley : Nobody knows the full story except Connie.

  Connie Sachs : Mice eaten the files, have they?

  George Smiley : You know how mice are.

  Connie Sachs : I know how rats are. How is the bastard, anyway?

  George Smiley : Which one?

• George Smiley : I need your memory, Con.

  Connie Sachs : Bust. Out of order. I've discovered love since we parted. Addles the hormones, rots the teeth.