“Spies have years of training and experience. I had half an hour of panic and a pig.” — M.E. Castle Copy Share Image
“Thieves, spies and other wise guys are working everywhere…including in branches of the U.S. government.” — Sherry Morris Copy Share Image
There are Russian spies here now. And if we're lucky, they'll steal some of our secrets and they'll be two years behind. — Mort Sahl Copy Share Image
Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent. — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
“Being a spy was something like standing on the south shore fending off a hurricane with a $2 poncho and an umbrella.” — Lynn Blackmar Copy Share Image
Waiting. Like it or not, it's a skill all spies have to master eventually. — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
I got nothing. Even the spies I'm spying on who are spying on other spies got nothing. — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
It was a charming fantasy of romantics that the spies would stop spying, that political conflict would end and politicians would tell… — John le Carre 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
Inside North Korea, we have many informants and spies watching everyone; they're paid by the government. Even a husband and wife can't… — Lee Hyeon-seo Copy Share Image
We need spies that look like their targets, CIA officers who speak the dialects terrorists use, and FBI agents who can speak… — Jane Harman 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
“Sean Ryan looked at the agents from the BND, Interpol, Mossad, Vatican Intelligence, the Vatican’s Central Office of Vigilance, the Secret Service,… — Declan Finn Copy Share Image
Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance… — William Henry Ashley 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
But it is almost impossible to communicate with them [one's spies in the enemy camp] and receive the information they possess ...… — Antoine-Henri Jomini Copy Share Image
I think suspense should be like any other color on a writer's palette. I suppose I'm in the minority but I think… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
At the secret CIA training facility called 'The Farm,' aspiring case-officers learn how to recruit spies and steal secrets. As a former… — Will Hurd Copy Share Image
“For many years there have been rumours of mind control experiments. in the United States. In the early 1970s, the first of… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
“When spies aren't in sewer tunnels, they're usually crawling through air ducts. I'm not sure exactly why this is. It makes you… — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
Imagine a 'Mission: Impossible'-style spy or infiltration mission into the core, the very heart of the Empire's military-industrial complex, the most secure… — John Knoll Copy Share Image
“Do I get to come in?” he asked. She shrugged and stood aside. “I’m just packing.” “Moving again?” he asked with faint… — Diana Palmer Copy Share Image
“Do you know, when I am with you I am not afraid at all. It is a magic altogether curious that happens… — Joanna Bourne Copy Share Image
All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is ten thousand times cheaper to pay the best spies lavishly than even a tiny army poorly. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Yet have I ever heard it said that spies and tale-bearers have done more mischief in this world than poisoned bowl or… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
A person who searched rooms, brandished pistols, dangled promises of half a million franc fees for nameless services and then wrote instructions… — Eric Ambler 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
Spies could be invaluable in peacetime, once the fighting actually started, their value dropped steeply. When the swords were out, it was… — David Weber 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
There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took… — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
“Right now, I couldn't have cared less if someone had waltzed across the room in a large flower costume with a sign… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
I won't stand idly by watching Janet Yellen radically transform the IRS into a leftist, Praetorian Guard that spies on Americans' private… — Lauren Boebert Copy Share Image
A number of Americans were used, most often unwillingly, by North Korea to arm spies with English-speaking skills so they could target… — Robert Jenkins Copy Share Image
What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Obviously, anyone who has seen Mr. and Mrs. Smith knows that husband and wife married spies is something that I find particularly… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
It is an ambassador's duty to stand up for his nation's foreign policy in any era and under any government whatsoever. Ambassadors… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
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