Spy Quotes

241 Spy quotes by 186 unique authors

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
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
The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent. — Aldrich Ames
In some roles I have to wear fur, and I always make sure it's fake, like in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. Faux… — Kristen Johnston
The church is: a conspiracy of love for a dying world, a spy mission into enemy occupied territory ruled by the powers of evil; a… — Peter Kreeft
Living, just by itself - what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian regime:… — C.J. Sansom
Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe. — Agnes Smedley
Ten years ago she split the air To seize what she could spy Tonight she bumps against a chair, Betrayed by milky eye. She seems… — Ogden Nash
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
On these sands and in the clefts of the rocks, in the depths of the sea, in the creaking of the pines, you'll spy secret… — Homer

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