General grant Quote by Micael Kilian

“This isn't a job for trained soldiers and spies. It's a job for thugs and thieves.”

— Leigh Bardugo

“Spies should be able to endure torture and still keep their secrets. I spilled mine out like pennies from a broken piggy bank.”

— Myra McEntire

“Our side has agents. Their side has spies.”

— Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

“Sometimes, even spies don’t make the right decisions. Sometimes we get confused. And this isn’t a movie,” I added, “so there’s no guarantee that…

— Maya Bode

“The Americans have their spies here, and we have our people over there. You, however, are not simply a spy. You’re a Soviet citizen—and…

— Natan Sharansky

“He wasn’t really a spy; he just helped them out when they were busy.”

— Tony Rattigan

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

“People who are different are considered ineffective. People who can’t hide their shortcomings are not considered a threat. A lot of spies rely on…

— Lynn Blackmar

Someone responding to the story said 'real spies do not speak like that'. Well, I am a spy and that is how they talk.…

— Edward Snowden

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

General Sherman looked upon journalists as a nuisance and a danger at headquarters and in the field, and acted toward them accordingly, then as…

— Henry Villard

“Generals, on the average, are far less bellicose than journalists or patriotic housewives: They know the horrors of a war and they dislike any…

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn