There are Russian spies here now. And if we're lucky…

I am always up to steal secrets from smart people.

— Jim Rash

“It was one thing to take over a man’s mind to prevent her own death, and another thing entirely to steal his secrets.”

— Kristin Cashore

Do not touch anything unnecessarily. Beware of pretty girls in dance halls and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles, revolvers, uniforms,…

— Garry Wills

“I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes.”

— Anonymous

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

You pretend to be a visitor, but are really a spy.

— Vikrant Parsai

Spies go to bars for the same reason people go to libraries: full of information if you know where to ask.

— Michael Weston

Mr. Snowden did not start out as a spy, and calling him one bends the term past recognition. Spies don't give their secrets to…

— Alex Berenson

The ultimate in disposing one's troops is to be without ascertainable shape. Then the most penetrating spies cannot pry in nor can the wise…

— Sun Tzu

It's about these people who are inextricably together for whatever reasons, and they happen to be in the spy world. It's about relationships, and…

— Victor Garber

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

They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness.

— Sun Tzu

The trouble is, when professional spies go out of their way to make a definitive statement about one of their own, the public tends…

— John le Carre

Spies are the ears and eyes of Princes.

— George Herbert

The enemy's spies who have come to spy on us must be sought out, tempted with bribes, led away and comfortably housed. Thus they…

— Sun Tzu