Spies Quotes

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Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. — Jane Austen
Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live… — John le Carre
Here Stormbringer spies the Stepsons, the Theban fighters, and the 3rd Commando, attending to their own. In the face of such unflinching determination and unswerving… — Janet Morris
Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity. — Sun Tzu
They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness. — Sun Tzu
Be subtle! be subtle! and use your spies for every kind of business. — Sun Tzu
Computer security can simply be protecting your equipment and files from disgruntled employees, spies, and anything that goes bump in the night, but there is… — Bruce Schneier
[Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of the young psychoanalysts… — Abraham Maslow
Spies are a most important element in water, because on them depends an army's ability to move. — Sun Tzu
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 lay… — 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 ingenuity… — Sun Tzu
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 will… — Sun Tzu
Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention of the people,… — Aristotle
I play Dr. Karen Boyer in 'Spies Like Us.' She's strong, intelligent and dedicated and just happens to be beautiful. — Donna Dixon
I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they don't readily advertise themselves unless they're not living in Moscow, and even then.… — Jeremy Northam
He always wants to expand every one's rights: illegal aliens, terrorists, Russian spies, except American citizens. — Rush Limbaugh
The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and suddenly remembers that the lens… — Jean Genet
Most of us live in a condition of secrecy: secret desires, secret appetites, secret hatreds and relationship with the institutions which is extremely intense and… — John le Carre
A person who searched rooms, brandished pistols, dangled promises of half a million franc fees for nameless services and then wrote instructions to Polish spies… — Eric Ambler
In the old days, spies had done they'd done because they loved their country, because they believed in what they were doing. But he'd never… — Anthony Horowitz

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