Nobody understood why opposites attracted, and anybody who…

“Langley bred a certain type of person with great intention. The human resources department required nearly as sophisticated of analysts as the foreign intelligence…

— Lynn Blackmar

“Being a spy was something like standing on the south shore fending off a hurricane with a $2 poncho and an umbrella.”

— Lynn Blackmar

“People who are different are considered ineffective. People who can’t hide their shortcomings are not considered a threat. A lot of spies rely on…

— Lynn Blackmar

Opposites are attracted when each one is anxious about its own character.

— Donald Hall

When I met you it was magic... We polar opposites, but attracted like we was magnets.

— Talib Kweli

This is the wonderful thing about espionage, nothing exists any more.

— William Stephenson

Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible.

— Kurt Vonnegut

All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.

— Sun Tzu

There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it…

— Aldrich Ames

I cannot think that espionage can be recommended as a technique for building an impressive civilization. It's a lout's game.

— Rebecca West

It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give…

— Sun Tzu

There is no place where espionage is not possible.

— Sun Tzu

What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards,…

— John le Carre

The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.

— Aldrich Ames

“To achieve its New World Order plans, the Omega Agency needed people who could make use of their primordial instincts, who wouldn’t question the…

— James Morcan