Assassins Quote by Friedrich Schiller

A dagger is the noble weapon of Brutus. Everyone understands that tyrants fall to daggers. A bomb is a sordid modern device with many…

— Bruce Sterling

Spies could be invaluable in peacetime, once the fighting actually started, their value dropped steeply. When the swords were out, it was the information…

— David Weber

Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.

— Anonymous

Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

— Edmund Burke

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

Sometimes a villain is very quiet - it makes them more deadly, more intellectual.

— Dave Filoni

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

People are just fascinated by assassinations.

— Louis Stokes

We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before,…

— John le Carre

“Poison is seldom taken in the gross; but, if mingled with food, the mischief is not suspected until it is discovered by the effect.”

— John Newton

Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us…

— John le Carre

As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson