Spies Quotes

79 quotes by 65 authors

Thoughts are to the Desires as Scouts and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired. — Thomas Hobbes
Like any good spy novel, the Cox Report alleges that Chinese spies penetrated four U.S. weapons research labs and stole important information on seven nuclear… — Charles Bass
From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.' — Barry Eisler
Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict diligence… — William Henry Ashley
A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every manâ€™s business; the eye of the federal inspector will be in every manâ€™s… — Richard E. Byrd
The general's staff is a handpicked collection of killers, spies, geniuses, patriots, political operators and outright maniacs. There's a former head of British Special Forces,… — Michael Hastings
To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food,… — George Orwell
Every member of the society spies on the rest, and it is his duty to inform against them. All are slaves and equal in their… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt, And cling to faith beyond the forms of faith; She reels not at the storm of warring… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of… — Aristotle
The birds are the eyes of heaven, and the flies are the spies of hell. — Suzy Kassem
We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave. — Christine Keeler
I got nothing. Even the spies I'm spying on who are spying on other spies got nothing. — Kresley Cole
Liberals and leftists have been dismissing inconvenient facts by attacking motives for generations. In the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, Soviet spies and abettors attacked the… — Jonah Goldberg
The Jews form a state, and, obeying their own laws, they evade those of their host country. the Jews always considered an oath regarding a… — Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautiful woman, no doubt very… — Morley Safer
Women have always been spies — Harriet Rubin
It is quiet here and restful and the air is delicious. There are gardens everywhere and police spies lie in the bushes. There are nightingales… — Maxim Gorky
Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind: Invisible to mortal eyes they go, And mark our actions, good… — Hesiod
It is an ambassador's duty to stand up for his nation's foreign policy in any era and under any government whatsoever. Ambassadors are, in the… — Napoleon Bonaparte

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