Age Quote by Hermann Hesse

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.

— John le Carre

It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to…

— George Bernard Shaw

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

I wrote 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' at the age of 30 under intense, unshared personal stress and in extreme privacy.…

— John le Carre

I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.

— Aaron Eckhart

Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible.

— Kurt Vonnegut

When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your…

— Elbert Hubbard

[My novels] introduce levels of intelligence ... moral doubt [and] self-doubt, which may not pertain [to real-world espionage].

— John le Carre

When you're dealing with espionage and covert affairs, sometimes the secret is more exciting than the knowledge.

— Jeffrey Donovan

I was born into no true class and it was my decision early in life to insinuate myself into the middle class like a…

— John Cheever

“...and I was reminded…of the everday boredom of a life in espionage. One is always waiting for someone who does not show up,for something…

— Charles McCarry

For years before my Navy enlistment, I had studied the Soviet Union and the KGB's history of political intrigue in preparation for a career…

— Malcolm Nance