Ideas Quote by Tony Gilroy

It's a very dangerous and lonely thing, I imagine, to be a spy: to have friendships that are deceptions, that are not honest.

— Mark Rylance

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

That’s the thing about spies. Most of the secrets we keep are from each other.

— Ally Carter

Spies go undercover. They take on different personas.

— David Leitch

It was a charming fantasy of romantics that the spies would stop spying, that political conflict would end and politicians would tell the truth.…

— John le Carre

Deception is a sort of seduction. In love and war, adultery and espionage, deceit can only succeed if the deceived party is willing, in…

— Ben Macintyre

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

Evolutionary theory holds that our ability to sense when we should be suspicious has been every bit as essential for human survival as our…

— Daniel Goleman

Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't.

— Jane Rule

“Though we sometimes suspect that people are hiding things from us, it is not until we are in love that we feel an urgency…

— Alain de Botton

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

Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity; (2) They cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straight forwardness; (3) Without subtle…

— Sun Tzu