Spies Quotes

79 Spies quotes by 65 unique authors

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
The older ones recently saw Mr and Mrs Smith and I think they thought that was the funniest thing they'd ever seen because, of course,… — Angelina Jolie
And many more Destructions played In this ghastly masquerade, All disguised, even to the eyes, Like Bishops, lawyers, peers, or spies. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
I go into Daunt Books in Marylebone every couple of weeks. My wife Sara demolishes books, but I only buy stuff occasionally. I like boys'… — Noel Gallagher
I love the idea of spies in love. How would it work between two people who were so programmed to lie and be suspicious, who… — Tony Gilroy
No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps. — Steve Forbes
I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian… — Elia Kazan
There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but… — Gary Oldman
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. — William Shakespeare
I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in… — William Tecumseh Sherman
From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few. — John Updike

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