Smiley's People (TV Mini Series)
Gathering Friends (1982)
Beryl Reid: Connie Sachs
Quotes
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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.
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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!
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Connie Sachs : Oh, stop flirting, George.
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Connie Sachs : George Smiley, born in captivity.
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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.
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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?
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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.