The Secret Agent Characters Flashcards
The Narrator about Verloc
The majority of revolutionists are enemies of discipline and fatigue mostly”
Chief Inspector Heat about Verloc
“He’s a lazy dog, too like the rest of them”
Verloc
“They had women to fall back on, whereas he had a woman to provide for”
Chief Inspector Heat about Verloc
“as long as he didn’t go in for anything obviously outrageous, he would be left alone by the police”
The Professor
“dingy little man”
Professor
“I depend on death”
Professor
“What happens to us as individuals is not of the least consequence”
Professor
“Industrious like ants”
Chief Inspector Heat about the Professor
“A mad dog”
Professor to Ossipon
“Here you print,plot and do nothing”
Chief Inspector Heat
“teeming millions struggling upon the planet were with him”
Chief Inspector Heat
“There were no rules for dealing with anarchists”
Chief Inspector Heat about Michaelis
“A man like that has no business to be at large anyhow”
Chief Inspector Heat
“The mind and the instincts of a burglar are of the same kind as the mind and instincts of a police officer”
Chief Inspector Heat about the Professor
“He meant to have home someday”
