Spy Quotes

241 quotes by 188 authors

In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's a spy and… — Rowan Atkinson
Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. — Jane Austen
What I'm getting at is, you know, if we really want to get serious about helping all the people living in the street and getting… — Jello Biafra
The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely. — Buffalo Bill
It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away… — John le Carre
But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or… — John le Carre
A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it. — John le Carre
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
We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really,… — John le Carre
I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects. — Jackie Chan
I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help. — Julia Child
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
I was born into no true class and it was my decision early in life to insinuate myself into the middle class like a spy… — John Cheever
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
If I determine the enemy's disposition of forces while I have no perceptible form, I can concentrate my forces while the enemy is fragmented. The… — Sun Tzu
The end and aim of spying in all its five varieties is knowledge of the enemy; and this knowledge can only be derived, in the… — Sun Tzu

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