Double standard Quote by John le Carre

This is the wonderful thing about espionage, nothing exists any more.

— William Stephenson

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Jeffrey Donovan

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to…

— Aldrich Ames

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

— Aaron Eckhart

Both cyber and old-fashioned human-intelligence industrial espionage has occurred for decades without any significant retribution by the United States.

— Robert C. O'Brien

You couldn't trust anyone or anything that belonged to the world of espionage.

— Anthony Horowitz

All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.

— Sun Tzu

I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet…

— Aldrich Ames

“Espionage is the world's second oldest profession.”

— Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

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

— John le Carre

I cannot think that espionage can be recommended as a technique for building an impressive civilization. It's a lout's game.

— Rebecca West