Spy Quotes

241 Spy quotes by 186 unique authors

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
This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which uses it continually as a cultural allusion. It is not… — Jean Baudrillard
Thrilling, illuminating, heart-pounding. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy reads like a crackling espionage novel and resonates as only the most compelling history can. Abbott brings to… — Megan Abbott
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
Thoughts are to the Desires as Scouts and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired. — Thomas Hobbes
The man who is an initiate of one of the great Mystery Schools never fears to let his pupils outdistance him, because he knows that… — Dion Fortune
A fantastic, gleeful, chrome-plated-slick debut of a novel. In Jonathan Chase, Markham has created the perfect cliche-shattering super spy while honoring the progenitors. Dangerously sharp,… — Greg Rucka
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
I've been called a spy of Israel since 1996, and since I made my documentary film in 2000 the FBI has investigated me as an… — Scott Ritter
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
Spy' is such a short ugly word. I prefer 'espionage.' Those extra three syllables really say something. — Howard Tayler

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186 authors contributed a total of 241 Spy Quotes, led by these top contributors: