Espionage Quotes

“Espionage is not a cricket game”

— John le Carré

“Spying is waiting.”

— John le Carré

I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.

— Aaron Eckhart

There is no place where espionage is not possible.

— Sun Tzu

“Do not fear those who operate in the shadows”

— Michael Brady

“No one said learning etiquette and espionage would be easy, my dear.”

— Gail Carriger

“In the intelligence community, a rumor was almost as good as a confirmation.”

— Kenneth Eade

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

— William Stephenson

All women are natural born espionage agents.

— Anonymous

“I think Peter was murdered because of what he found out about the company.”

— James Frazee

Who would have thought that in the 1950s, Burbank was a hotbed of international espionage?

— Annie Jacobsen

To get a sense of what the real world of espionage is like, imagine the James Bond Theme performed by a junior…

— John Alejandro King

Maha Kumbh' blends elements from Hindu mythology with the international espionage thriller. Nothing like it has ever been attempted on Indian television.

— Gautam Rode

Truth is suppressed, not to protect the country from enemy agents but to protect the Government of the day against the people.

— Roy Hattersley

You get so used to lying that after a while it's hard to remember what the truth is.

— Philip Agee

“To take command, one must first create the illusion that command is already yours.”

— Denise Domning

The CCP is spreading its espionage efforts throughout our agriculture industry, education systems, TikTok, Wall Street, and much more.

— Michael Waltz

“Next time -- we will roll out the red carpet for you in the United States of Arabia, my brethren!”

— Leonard Leventon

Secrecy is as essential to intelligence as vestments and incense to a Mass or darkness to a spiritualist séance and must at…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

To be clear, we do not open investigations based on race, or ethnicity, or national origin. But when we open investigations into…

— Christopher A. Wray

It is getting to the point where the mark of international distinction and service to humanity is no longer the Nobel Peace…

— Julian Assange

“We already have the cops, the FBI and the CIA looking for us, not to mention the enemy. The last thing we…

— Brian Bern

Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and…

— Aldrich Ames

The majority of terrorist attacks that have been disrupted in the United States have been disrupted due to things like the Time…

— Edward Snowden

“Haydon had found his charm again. He could do that at the drop of a hat. He drew you and he repelled…

— John le Carré

When I first read Helen Weinzweig's 'Basic Black with Pearls' several years ago, I emerged in the sort of daze that happens…

— Sarah Weinman

Hitherto acceptable norms of human conduct do not apply. If the United States is to survive, long-standing American concepts of 'fair play'…

— Jimmy Doolittle

“Smiley himself was one of those solitaires who seem to have come into the world fully educated at the age of eighteen.…

— John le Carré

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

— Lynn Blackmar

“Their conversation ceased abruptly with the entry of an oddly-shaped man whose body resembled a certain vegetable. He was a thickset fellow…

— Jeff Phillips

The attack on the law firms and attacks like that are industrial espionage, searching for copyrighted materials to lift and so on;…

— Misha Glenny

“Every time I do an interview people ask similar questions, such as "What is the most significant story that you have revealed?"…

— Glenn Greenwald

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

— Lynn Blackmar

“Even though we don't know which companies the NSA has compromised – or by what means – knowing that they could have…

— Bruce Schneier

“Good tradecraft keeps espionage routine and boring.”

— Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

The Covert Comic isn't like you. The Covert Comic is love you.

— John Alejandro King

Cyber espionage is very lucrative for economic benefit to a nation.

— Dmitri Alperovitch

“Do you know what love is? I'll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray.”

— John le Carré

“Espionage is the world's second oldest profession.”

— Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

You could be the perfect spy. All you need is a cause

— John le Carré