Spy Quotes

241 quotes by 186 authors

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'm not a spy, which is the real question — Edward Snowden
When people don't do anything they don't think anything, and when people don't think anything there's nothing to think about them.- Harriet the Spy — Louise Fitzhugh
We reject the use of national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime. — Barack Obama
I once dated a guy who was like, 'Holy sh--, I just made out with Harriet the Spy!' And that's messed up. Don't say that.… — Michelle Trachtenberg
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
I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to… — Pia Zadora
Braveheart is pure Australian shiteWilliam Wallace was a spy, a thief, a blackmailer - a c**t basically. And people are swallowing it. It's part of… — Billy Connolly
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
I invented the historical spy novel. — Alan Furst
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
To a Mistress Dying Lover. YOUR beauty, ripe and calm and fresh As eastern summers are, Must now, forsaking time and flesh, Add light to… — William Davenant
Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know. — William Davenant
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

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