Choices Quote by Anthony Horowitz

It was a charming fantasy of romantics that the spies would stop spying, that political conflict would end and politicians would tell the truth.…

— John le Carre

Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity; They cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness; Without subtle ingenuity of mind,…

— Sun Tzu

Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity; (2) They cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straight forwardness; (3) Without subtle…

— Sun Tzu

There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years,…

— Gary Oldman

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

Spies could be invaluable in peacetime, once the fighting actually started, their value dropped steeply. When the swords were out, it was the information…

— David Weber

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

— Sun Tzu

“He wasn’t really a spy; he just helped them out when they were busy.”

— Tony Rattigan

Spies go undercover. They take on different personas.

— David Leitch

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

There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a desire for…

— Max Lerner

I've known several spies who have wanted to become novelists. And novelists who became spies, of course.

— Christopher Koch