Spy Quotes

241 Spy quotes by 186 unique authors

Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too. — Stephen King
Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it. — Ally Carter
I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how… — Yann Martel
I don't know if you remember me, but I used to work here in the factory." Were you one of those despicable spies who every… — Johnny Depp
...she woke up in time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark. He peeped… — Zora Neale Hurston
And as every spy knows, common enemies are how allies always begin. — Ally Carter
Trust. We stake our lives on it, but it's a subject that not even the Gallagher Academy can teach. When do you let your guard… — Ally Carter
Re-reading is much underrated. I've read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold once every five years since I was 15. I only started… — Malcolm Gladwell
So you actually need spectacles,” Leo finally said. “Of course I do,” Marks said crossly. “Why would I wear spectacles if I didn’t need them?”… — Lisa Kleypas
No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison: We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage: When thou dost ask me blessing,… — William Shakespeare
Did you hear that? I'm special. — Ally Carter
She was a Privately funded spy ship owned by the corporation and headed by Juan Cabtillo. The Oregon was his brain child and his one… — Clive Cussler
Before he can become a wolf, the lycanthrope strips naked. If you spy a naked man among the pines, you must run as if the… — Angela Carter
I’m really starting to like all this spy work,” Vee said. “When my normal life gets boring, all I have to do is sidle up… — Becca Fitzpatrick
He'd always known that the world was an interesting place, and his imagination had peopled it with pirates and bandits and spies and astronauts and… — Terry Pratchett
The gossip will carry to Attolian spies, who will report to Relius, Attolia's master of spies, and he will carry the news to her." "Her… — Megan Whalen Turner
I tried to imagine how things could get much worse. The gods were in the Midwest fighting a huge monster that had almost defeated them… — Rick Riordan
I have a theory which I suspect is rather immoral,' Smiley went on, more lightly. 'Each of us has only a quantum of compassion. That… — John le Carre
Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided. — John le Carre
Science is an investigation," Coach said, sanding his hands together. "Science requires us to transform into spies." Put that way, science almost sounded fun. But… — Becca Fitzpatrick
Life is a struggle and a good spy goes in there and fights. — Louise Fitzhugh
What have we been doing all these centuries but trying to call God back to the mountain, or, failing that, raise a peep out of… — Annie Dillard
Time, the greatest thief of all. — Ally Carter
… that sour blend of loneliness and lust for recognition, shyness and extravagance, deep insecurity and self-intoxicated egomania, that drives poets and writers out of… — Amos Oz
Further, an excess of legislation defeats its own ends. It makes the whole population criminals, and turns them all into police and police spies. The… — Aleister Crowley

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