* "Nothing personal..."
* The Circus personel cheerily singing along to ''the Soviet National Anthem'' at their Christmas Party, complete with a Lenin-mask-wearing Father Christmas.
** And also at the party: "It will take five hours to get drunk off this monkey-piss."
** The one before that's even better: "You Calvinistic, penny-pinching Scot! Can ye no' learn to take a bloody order? Nobody tampers with the recipe!"
* ''"[[DirtyOldWoman I don't know about you, George, but I'm feeling seriously underfucked...]]"''
* It's amusing to find three actors who had played Franchise/JamesBond villains cast in the ''Smiley's People'' miniseries. Creator/JohnLeCarre's books and George Smiley are frequently labeled as the "anti-Creator/IanFleming" and "anti-James Bond" respectively.