Fighting Quote by David Weber

Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity; They cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness; Without subtle ingenuity of mind,…

— 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…

— Sun Tzu

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…

— Anthony Horowitz

Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict…

— William Henry Ashley

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

— John Updike

What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards,…

— John le Carre

They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness.

— Sun Tzu

The trouble is, when professional spies go out of their way to make a definitive statement about one of their own, the public tends…

— John le Carre

There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years,…

— Gary Oldman

Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity.

— Sun Tzu

It was a charming fantasy of romantics that the spies would stop spying, that political conflict would end and politicians would tell the truth.…

— John le Carre

But it is almost impossible to communicate with them [one's spies in the enemy camp] and receive the information they possess ... Even when…

— Antoine-Henri Jomini