Espionage Quote by John le Carré Download Open image ““Spying is waiting.”” — John le Carré ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Espionage Spying
“There is no one for spying on people's actions like those who are not concerned in them” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Hey, you wanna drop back a few paces? Did you forget how spying works? You're supposed to at least aim for unobtrusive. The others… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
“...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 Copy Share Image
“We can't really spy on them if they aren't spying on us, now can we?" twisted logic, but okay.” — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
“That wasn't like spying. Any fool can spy. A spy has a clean, exciting life. But try and spend ten years in a hard… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“He wasn’t really a spy; he just helped them out when they were busy.” — Tony Rattigan Copy Share Image
The creation of George Smiley, the retired spy recalled to hunt for just such a high-ranking mole in 'Tinker, Tailor,' was extremely personal. I… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“You're history, Donohue. You think countries run the fucking world! Go back to fucking Sunday school. It's 'God save our multinational' they're singing these… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“Pain observed is journalistic pain. It's diplomatic pain. It's television pain, over as soon as you switch off your beastly set.” — John le Carré Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to mankind comes from the renunciation of individual scruple in favor of institutional denominators. . . . Real heroism lies, as… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“and the wood smoke will roll out of the fireplace on to the carpet we paid too much for on that rainy afternoon in… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
“Middle children weep longer than their brothers and sisters. Over her mother’s shoulder, stilling her pains and her injured pride, Jackie Lacon watched the… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“Havens turned again. Someone else passed between the trucks. That someone walked with less purpose than the other workers near the stalls. To Havens… — J.T. Patten Copy Share Image
There are serious and legitimate concerns about academic espionage at our universities. — Mikie Sherrill Copy Share Image
The neighbourhood is a place of...intrigue and emotional espionage, where when two people stop to talk on the street their tongues are like the… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
“Langley bred a certain type of person with great intention. The human resources department required nearly as sophisticated of analysts as the foreign intelligence… — Lynn Blackmar Copy Share Image
There was an intervention of the foreign states in the Russian Far East, Archangel of the West border of Russia. The foreign troops were… — Vladimir Semichastny Copy Share Image
“We have to live without sympathy, don't we? That's impossible of course. We act it to one another, all this hardness; but we aren't… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
“The Intelligence Services of East and West have given Europe over fifty years of peace - the longest the Continent has ever known. They… — Markus Wolf Copy Share Image
“Believing in a conspiracy theory is one strategy people use to regain a sense of control, even if the conspiracy theory is unrelated to… — Oscar Auliq-Ice Junior Copy Share Image
The majority of terrorist attacks that have been disrupted in the United States have been disrupted due to things like the Time Square bomber,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“Their conversation ceased abruptly with the entry of an oddly-shaped man whose body resembled a certain vegetable. He was a thickset fellow with calloused… — Jeff Phillips Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
