Quote by William Shakespeare

“When sorrow comes, they come not single spies, but in battalions. I've allies in heaven, Jack, i've commrades in hell...say hello for me...”

— James O'Barr

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

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

— Sun Tzu

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

“The fatal conceit of most spies is to believe they are loved, in a relationship between equals, and not merely manipulated.”

— Ben Macintyre

Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict…

— William Henry Ashley

And as every spy knows, common enemies are how allies always begin.

— Ally Carter

It is ten thousand times cheaper to pay the best spies lavishly than even a tiny army poorly.

— Sun Tzu

“We should hang one of those reporter bastards every week. They're more help to the enemy than spies." "They'd make poor spies, They get…

— Micael Kilian

The ultimate in disposing one's troops is to be without ascertainable shape. Then the most penetrating spies cannot pry in nor can the wise…

— Sun Tzu

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

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

— Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius