Spies Quotes
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Thieves, spies and other wise guys are working everywhere ... including in branches of the U.S. government.
— Sherry Morris
From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big, bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'
— Barry Eisler
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You can't see both sides of one coin at once, can you, child? The god of money always keeps a secret.The god of money was also the god of spies. — Marie Rutkoski
I got nothing. Even the spies I'm spying on who are spying on other spies got nothing.
— Kresley Cole
We're all spies. What do we have if not our rumors, our half-truths, our fragments taken out of context?
— Joakim Zander
When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.
— Barry Eisler
Nobody understood why opposites attracted, and anybody who said they did was probably selling a book.
— Lynn Blackmar
Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Spies go to bars for the same reason people go to libraries: full of information if you know where to ask.
— Michael Weston
There's no way of calculating how many ramifications a story will take on once one spies a gleam of attention in another's eyes.
— Carmen Martin Gaite
The U.N. is an American-based bastion of foreign spies. Russia has more spies in the U.S. than there are members of the F.B.I.
— Meldrim Thomson Jr.
Writers are spies. Outsiders. Believers in the turning pages.
— Alexis De Veaux
Since real spies are so good, you never really know what actual spying is. But I do think spying is a lot more dangerous than we are led to believe.
— Richard C. Armitage
Our side has agents. Their side has spies.
— Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
Shaggy existentialists in frayed sandals, dilettantes by the score, spies by the portfolio.
— Jan Morris
In this job, you handpick your people. You need the best. You need the most loyal. You need the most ruthless.
— Karen Traviss
Our government spies and lies. Those trusted to uphold and enforce the law use it to their advantage instead.
— Patricia Cornwell
I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes.
— E. M. Forster
Rumor has it that female spies and assassins have used specialized dehydrated poisons, concealed in their compacts, to eliminate their enemies.
— Terry Schappert
Christians behave like spies, living in one world while our deepest allegiance belongs to another.
— Philip Yancey
I've known several spies who have wanted to become novelists. And novelists who became spies, of course.
— Christopher Koch
The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
— George Herbert
Spies are a most important element in water, because on them depends an army's ability to move.
— Sun Tzu
I'm supposed to believe it's a coincidence that we're both former spies that ended up together?
— Katie Reus
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
I should probably bequeath the copyrights to my screenplay for Spies Like Us, just in case.
— Nathan Hale
I swore I'd never be the girlfriend who spies on her boyfriend's phone, but tough shit. I'm her today.
— Allie Everhart
We had been two sides of the same coin, attached by a force stronger than family or friends. We had been one.
— Robin M. King
Spies are the ears and eyes of Princes.
— George Herbert
But first, my friends, I need you to do something for me. We have two spies in the back of the auditorium.
— James Dashner
Since spies must survive by telling lies, it can be hard to know when they are telling the truth.
— Stephen Grey
No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps.
— Steve Forbes
It is a valuable thing for an intelligencer to be forgotten.
— Gail Carriger
Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist.
— Anthony Horowitz
I grew up on the Roger Moore and Sean Connery Bond movies, so the DNA of my spies is extremely ridiculous and goofy.
— Nick Harkaway
Women have always been spies.
— Harriet Rubin
Thoughts are to the Desires as Scouts and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired.
— Thomas Hobbes
As if we were God's spies
— William Shakespeare
So the I.F. is spying on Earth.""Just as a mother spies on her children at play in the yard."
"Good to know you're looking out for us, Mummy. — Orson Scott Card
We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave.
— Christine Keeler
Who knew? Spies read.
— Peggy Kopman-Owens
Encryption matters, and it is not just for spies and philanderers.
— Glenn Greenwald
As a rule, spies don't like dealing with cops. Covert ops are illegal by definition. If they were legal they wouldn't need to be covert.
— Michael Weston
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
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies
— Henry Kissinger
Science requires us to transform into spies.
— Becca Fitzpatrick
Let's have a baby, Abs. We've taken down terrorist cells. Surely we can handle one little baby. Spies
— Ally Carter
Mr. Rogan, I am magician, not God.
— Kenneth Eade
- Aren't you worried?- Would it help? — Rudolf Abel
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
— William Shakespeare
I canna let you die like Da," he said softly."And yet ye canna let me live," she replied. — Madeline Martin
Beauty to beguile, spies to ensnare, and gold, always gold, to tempt, to trap, to control.
— Karen Azinger
The fatal conceit of most spies is to believe they are loved, in a relationship between equals, and not merely manipulated.
— Ben Macintyre
As soon as I know it's about technological things or spies, I lose interest. I want to know what goes on in people's minds.
— Ruth Rendell
A lot of childhood effort, worry, and whispering goes into cracking the codes of adult life. Children have to be accomplished spies.
— Vera B. Williams
I can't tell you the things I know," I repeated."Why not?"
"They aren't my secrets to tell. — Embee
I advise you against following my example. Don't take up with a man who will die for you. Find one who will kill for you instead.
— Donna Thorland
Here, I stole it for you. Why don't you tell me what it's for.""Aw, Sophronia, how thoughtful. You brought me a present! — Gail Carriger
There aren't enough secrets to go round anymore. Some spies are having to invent secrets in order to earn a living.
— Shelagh Delaney
Of course not, you silly bitch. You've been poisoned.
— Donna Thorland
I play Dr. Karen Boyer in 'Spies Like Us.' She's strong, intelligent and dedicated and just happens to be beautiful.
— Donna Dixon
I've never been much for tears, anyway.
— Ed Brubaker
Yet have I ever heard it said that spies and tale-bearers have done more mischief in this world than poisoned bowl or the assassin's dagger.
— Friedrich Schiller
He always wants to expand every one's rights: illegal aliens, terrorists, Russian spies, except American citizens.
— Rush Limbaugh
I love the combination of the words 'spies' and 'Balkans.' It's like meat and potatoes.
— Alan Furst
I just wanted to buy a spy novel. I didn't want to be in one.
— Jeffrey Westhoff
I've got one thing to say: I killed a lot of germans, and I'm only sorry I didn't kill more.
— Nancy Wake
I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
An ambassador has no need of spies; his character is always sacred.
— George Washington
Her fingers clutched him now, and her body writhed with a frustration he knew all too well.He wanted her.
Now.
Here. — Madeline Martin
All defectors have a complex relationship with truth.
— David Mitchell
Spies and parents never sleep.
— Linda Gerber