“Espionage is not supposed to be sporting, otherwise it would not be clandestine.” — Khalid Muhammad Copy Share Image
“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
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
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
There aren't enough secrets to go round anymore. Some spies are having to invent secrets in order to earn a living. — Shelagh Delaney Copy Share Image
“We're going to have a woman lodger.’ ‘Cripes,’ said Jenno. ‘That'll cramp yer style a bit.” — Peter St. John Copy Share Image
“The fatal conceit of most spies is to believe they are loved, in a relationship between equals, and not merely manipulated.” — Ben Macintyre 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
In the old days, spies had done they'd done because they loved their country, because they believed in what they were doing.… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
It's about these people who are inextricably together for whatever reasons, and they happen to be in the spy world. It's about… — Victor Garber Copy Share Image
Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
“That's what spies do, right? They walk to the bakery and buy a loaf of bread everyday - perfectly normal - until… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautiful woman,… — Morley Safer Copy Share Image
Ghostery lets you spy on the spies in your computer. For each web page you visit, this extension uncloaks some - but… — Barton Gellman 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
“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
“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
“Dario, What you do or do not want applies to you, not me. I didn't ask your permission, and I don't seek… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
The CIA in real life, we know, is looking for new kinds of cover. It's looking for new platforms, as they like… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
“They are the Emperor's spies, his eyes and ears. And occasionally his assassins.” — Jonathan Moeller 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
They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
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