“I should have been honored to have been part of the best pickpocket incident of the century, but instead I was just… — Maya Bode Copy Share Image
“Espionage is not supposed to be sporting, otherwise it would not be clandestine.” — Khalid Muhammad Copy Share Image
“It’s the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies? Who can smell out the fox without running with… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“That wasn't like spying. Any fool can spy. A spy has a clean, exciting life. But try and spend ten years in… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I cannot think that espionage can be recommended as a technique for building an impressive civilization. It's a lout's game. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“He would be painstaking in his approach, meticulous. For there was nothing more dangerous, he thought, than a patient man.” — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
For decades to come the spy world will continue to be the collective couch where the subconscious of each nation is confessed. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Yet have I ever heard it said that spies and tale-bearers have done more mischief in this world than poisoned bowl or… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
A person who searched rooms, brandished pistols, dangled promises of half a million franc fees for nameless services and then wrote instructions… — Eric Ambler Copy Share Image
Spies could be invaluable in peacetime, once the fighting actually started, their value dropped steeply. When the swords were out, it was… — David Weber Copy Share Image
The government does not deny it routinely spies to advance American economic advantage, which is part of its broad definition of how… — David E. Sanger Copy Share Image
There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
The end and aim of spying in all its five varieties is knowledge of the enemy; and this knowledge can only be… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
I served 10 years on the U.S. House Intelligence Committee, and I had the distinct privilege of meeting with real U.S. spies… — Pete Hoekstra Copy Share Image
“On January 2, 1956 President Tubman’s staff informed the American Ambassador, General Richard Lee Jones, that the Soviet delegation had sent him… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater Two Copy Share Image
Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity; They cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness; Without subtle ingenuity… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
The enemy's spies who have come to spy on us must be sought out, tempted with bribes, led away and comfortably housed.… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Instead of inventing imaginary friends, I invented whole imaginary worlds. They were elaborate scenarios about spies and adventurers and top secret missions.… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
“When the spies got inside Jericho’s wall, they made a beeline past the apartments and the wall-marts to the whorehouse, where they… — Mark Russell Copy Share Image
“The Skill of Au Awazu: If you go to another province and associate with the local people, it is quite likely that… — Antony Cummins Copy Share Image
“Some people are agents from birth, Monsignors -- he told them -- appointed to the work by the period of history, the… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
“If you want, you can make him seem erratic and unreliable so they get rid of him. You can manufacture crises that… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
