Adventure Quote by Max Lerner

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

I've known several spies who have wanted to become novelists. And novelists who became spies, of course.

— Christopher Koch

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

Spies go undercover. They take on different personas.

— David Leitch

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

— Sun Tzu

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

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

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

You basically have a group of four spies who are chosen for a mission they feel for the fact of how competent they are…

— Matt LeBlanc

“What is the typical spy? To start with, they think that they are on a mission to save the world. The worlds of Matt…

— Jacques Pauw

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

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