Spy Quotes · Page 3

The birds are the eyes of heaven, and the flies are the spies of hell.

— Suzy Kassem

“You’ll have to do better than that chaps, if you want to kill me!”

— A.F. Stewart

I read a lot of books for information, like doctor books, spy books. . . .

— William S. Burroughs

My wife has a small part in 'Spy,' and that movie killed me repeatedly.

— John Ross Bowie

However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it.

— Christine Keeler

Waiting. Like it or not, it's a skill all spies have to master eventually.

— Ally Carter

“Never patronize your readers. That means don't talk down to them.”

— Tom Greer

“Please don't trouble yourself with my scars. At least not right now, OK?”

— Alex Rosa

The Soul unto itself Is an imperial friend, - Or the most agonizing Spy - An Enemy - could send -

— Emily Dickinson

I think in some ways what Snowden is, is he's a mix of a cold war spy novel and post-9/11 spy novel.

— Alex Berenson

You just have to look at me to know what I am feeling. So I would be a useless policewoman or spy.

— Nicola Walker

Turns out, you can take the girl out of the spy school, but you can never take the spy school out of…

— Ally Carter

Spy' is such a short ugly word. I prefer 'espionage.' Those extra three syllables really say something.

— Howard Tayler

In 'A Scanner Darkly,' as in 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,' all intersubjective relations devolve into webs of suspicion…

— Mark Fisher

Two days after my dad's funeral, my mom went on a mission. I never understood it until then--that sometimes a spy doesn't…

— Ally Carter

She was a Privately funded spy ship owned by the corporation and headed by Juan Cabtillo. The Oregon was his brain child…

— Anonymous

I end up feeling like a spy in the house of ethnicity, you know? Because people will talk around me as they…

— Sherman Alexie

I like to take certain aspects of genre fiction and modify them in my own way. 'Your Republic Is Calling You' follows…

— Kim Young-ha

“The room fell silent. I frankly didn't know what I was going to do to help Eduardo, but I had the sense…

— Tod Goldberg

I've been called a spy of Israel since 1996, and since I made my documentary film in 2000 the FBI has investigated…

— Scott Ritter

There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a…

— Max Lerner

On these sands and in the clefts of the rocks, in the depths of the sea, in the creaking of the pines,…

— Homer

In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of…

— William Hull

When you really study espionage movies, or spy movies, the beginnings are really set up to have, like, an amazing bit of…

— John Lasseter

The United States has faced threats from criminal groups, from terrorists, from spies throughout our history, and we have limited our responses.…

— Edward Snowden

We'll choose knowledge no matter what, we'll maim ourselves in the process, we'll stick our hands into the flames for it if…

— Margaret Atwood

Someone responding to the story said 'real spies do not speak like that'. Well, I am a spy and that is how…

— Edward Snowden

… that sour blend of loneliness and lust for recognition, shyness and extravagance, deep insecurity and self-intoxicated egomania, that drives poets and…

— Amos Oz

A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every man’s business; the eye of the federal inspector will be…

— Richard E. Byrd

It's great to be able to drive around and spy on people, which I do when I'm writing. People tell me the…

— John Waters

But strangely, [in] the original Matt Helm books, he's just this super hardass assassin. They sort of made it into a sexy…

— Adam Reed

“I was a tongue, a gazette. The bearer of "the truth of the whispers." I knew of hollowed books, trunks with false…

— Eva Stachniak

Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity.

— Sun Tzu

Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.

— William Davenant

Using flimsy evidence to spy on innocent citizens could very well be a crime.

— Trish Regan

“Once is a stranger; twice is a coincidence; three times is a tail.”

— Ally Carter

Everybody spies on everybody, I mean, that's just a fact.

— Marco Rubio

It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies?

— John le Carre

“She could do anything with dynamite, except eat it.”

— Clare Mulley

Even through the hollow eyes of death I spy life peering.

— William Shakespeare