Espionage Quotes
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Espionage Quotes & Sayings
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The best leaks always take place in the urinal.
— John Cole
We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage.
— Julian Assange
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[My novels] introduce levels of intelligence ... moral doubt [and] self-doubt, which may not pertain [to real-world espionage].
— John Le Carre
Nobody understood why opposites attracted, and anybody who said they did was probably selling a book.
— Lynn Blackmar
If this emperor thing doesn't work out, you might have a future career in espionage.
— Marissa Meyer
The angel of death can hardly have friends. And the prom, what about Danny? He can hardly have a Valkyrie for his date.
— Jacques Antoine
Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible
— Kurt Vonnegut
In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of pirates
— Michel Foucault
Being shaken to death by a Hawaiian tourist look-alike was not how Arena imagined her death.
— Lynn Blackmar
I am a huge fan of Alan Furst. Furst is the best in the businessthe most talented espionage novelist of our generation. — Vince Flynn
Good tradecraft keeps espionage routine and boring.
— Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
My name is E. Howard Hunt. I'm currently retired from more than 22 years in the profession of espionage.
— E. Howard Hunt
There is a little bit of everybody in everybody.
— Leonard Leventon
This is the wonderful thing about espionage, nothing exists any more.
— William Stephenson
You know how much I love you and the girls with all my heart, but being with Ruairi... I never realized there was something missing until I found it.
— Victoria Roberts
I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.
— Daniel Silva
I'm like the fucking Three Stooges of espionage. All three of 'em. All rolled into one!
— Abigail Roux
Espionage and counterespionage go together like horse and carriage.
— Charles McCarry
We're becoming more of a police state, and the government is doing everything it can to protect its secrets.
— Kenneth Eade
The CIA's offices in London were no secret to the MI6. In fact, the two agencies were practically kissing cousins.
— Kenneth Eade
Nobody seems to remember you from any of your employers.""I guess I'm not very memorable — Kenneth Eade
These programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.
— Edward Snowden
When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions true.
— Elbert Hubbard
The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.
— Aldrich Ames
First the FSB agent, and now the FBI. It was becoming a real alphabet soup of international espionage.
— Kenneth Eade
I cannot think that espionage can be recommended as a technique for building an impressive civilization. It's a lout's game.
— Rebecca West
When a spy sells something entirely new, all he needs to do is recount something you could find in any second-hand book stall.
— Umberto Eco
Espionage, Sophronia had learned, was tough on petticoats.
— Gail Carriger
Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.
— John Le Carre
My father once told me that it's not enough for a man to be lucky; that a guy has to know when that streak is on for him.
— Henry Mosquera
But I made him the Deputy Secretary for Homeland Security because that added an element of political espionage.
— Wes Craven
Some men will never be heroes, some heroes will never be men, he thought, with urgent acknowledgements to Joseph Conrad.
— John Le Carre
Informants can be helpful, but they are never infallible. All tools can break, or be turned into weapons.
— Raymond E. Feist
Most of everything is very little of not very much at all.
— Richard Edward Harding
Limp finally spoke. Do you think you could kill a person and not get all crazy about it?
— Cole Alpaugh
I'm sorry about this,' she said to the dead woman, 'but I'm gonna need your clothes.
— Jacques Antoine
Being a spy was something like standing on the south shore fending off a hurricane with a $2 poncho and an umbrella.
— Lynn Blackmar
Plastic flowers last for hours
— Bill Fairclough
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Anyone can deceive us .... for a time.[KGB] — Tom Clancy
The Obsidian Order?" I asked."What do you know about us?"
"Nothing."
"That's a good start. — Andrew J. Robinson
Don't worry. Blood will not be shed. Although if there was, I'm sure your husband would have another fine tapestry made.
— Victoria Roberts
So he was handsome. That fact did nothing to soften her feelings toward the walking interference she studied across the room.
— Eliza Lloyd
they knew also that the Communist underground was directed from Moscow and served chiefly as an espionage source for the Russians.*
— William L. Shirer
Mainly, when I go see a show, unfortunately it's more industrial espionage than it is going to actually enjoy a show.
— Hal Sparks
Men like us believe we are gods...
— Claudette Walker
The professor stared straight ahead. He felt Husam's eyes upon him. He clenched his hands together tightly, lest their shaking reveal everything.
— Christian F. Burton
Next time we will roll out the red carpet for you in the United States of Arabia, my brethren! — Leonard Leventon
Look realistically at espionage thrillers again. They're not only alive, readers are excited about them.
— Gayle Lynds
Who would have thought that in the 1950s, Burbank was a hotbed of international espionage?
— Annie Jacobsen
Spying is waiting.
— John Le Carre
The sensation was an explosion of feelings, leaving in its place a pleasured memory of that moment. That, thought Seth, was pure heaven
— Kenneth Eade
Caution is a spy's best friend; paranoia is his enemy.
— Jack Barsky
All women are natural born espionage agents.
— Eddie Cantor
Society tends to stick labels on everything and everyone. The label that is given to you will stick with you for a lifetime.
— Kenneth Eade
Espionage is the world's second oldest profession.
— Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
I just wanted to buy a spy novel. I didn't want to be in one.
— Jeffrey Westhoff
Spy' is such a short ugly word. I prefer 'espionage.' Those extra three syllables really say something.
— Howard Tayler
I've always had a great affection for espionage stories. I like weaving them, and I like thrillers.
— Terry Hayes
You could be the perfect spy. All you need is a cause.
— John Le Carre
Like a black hole, NSA pulls in every signal that comes near, but no electron is ever allowed to escape.
— James Bamford
A lady must always be prepared. Snacks are an essential part of espionage. Sophronia
— Gail Carriger
I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.
— Aaron Eckhart
Mr. Rogan, I am magician, not God.
— Kenneth Eade
