Spy Quotes

241 Spy quotes by 186 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
According to The Washington Post, the NSA has been monitoring phone calls and emails of people in Mexico. So apparently it's not enough to spy… — Jay Leno
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
While I cannot take the time to name all the men in the State Department who have been named as members of the Communist Party… — Joseph McCarthy
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
Don't get it right - get it WRITTEN! — Lee Child
They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy. — Zebulon Pike
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
I spent my entire experience with Gary [ on Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy] staring at him and not returning any lines because I think he's… — Tom Hardy
It's a thrilling world, and people really like stories about secrets, which is the essence of a spy drama. — Andrew Scott
Ships are blowing up at sea, or catching fire, factories are blowing up. Are these accidents? Are these industrial sabotage? No one really suspected a… — Howard Blum
No grand inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety and no spy knows how to attack more artfully the man he suspects,… — Soren Kierkegaard
The birds are the eyes of heaven, and the flies are the spies of hell. — Suzy Kassem
He was one of the masters of the thriller and he really was one of the great signposts, because he took the spy thriller out… — Frederick Forsyth
The Spy Act strikes a right balance between preserving legitimate and benign uses of this technology, while still, at the same time, protecting unwitting consumers… — Cliff Stearns
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
By encouraging men to spy and report on one another, by making it in the private interest of large numbers of citizens to evade the… — Milton Friedman
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

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