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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

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

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

The lie detector didn't react to anything I said, but I wouldn't dare smile. — Embee

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

Obviously, anyone who has seen Mr. and Mrs. Smith knows that husband and wife married spies is something that I find particularly interesting. — Doug Liman

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 have the same kinds of needs and desires that everybody does, which is funny. The best kind of comedy derives from that kind of truth. — Matt Nix

Spies go to bars for the same reason people go to libraries: full of information if you know where to ask. — Michael Weston

The fact of the matter is that the United States faces real threats from criminals, terrorists, spies, and malicious cyber actors. — James Comey

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

Be subtle! be subtle! and use your spies for every kind of business. — Sun Tzu

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

The UFO community?" I said. "Why would government spies want to infiltrate that?" "Oh, Jon," said Steven. "Don't be naive. — Jon Ronson

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. — Jane Austen

In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies. — Jack Adams

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

It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies? — John Le Carre

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

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

I carefully returned the files to my mother's drawer and left the house with one objective: find Christina Georgia.
July 14th was today. — Embee

There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened. — Gary Oldman

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

I should have been honored to have been part of the best pickpocket incident of the century, but instead I was just mad. — Embee

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

The sun?" Goldman said in an unguarded moment. "I hear they've shot it. — Alan Furst

You know a lot about spies, espionage, and strategic advantages for a billionaire playboy, real estate mogul, and owner of an exclusive sex club. — Lisa Shearin

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

But one thing was for certain: something would happen next. Something always did. Especially when you live the life of a spy. — Embee

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

There are Russian spies here now. And if we're lucky, they'll steal some of our secrets and they'll be two years behind. — Mort Sahl

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

This isn't a job for soldiers and spies. It's a job for thugs and thieves. — Leigh Bardugo

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

Waiting. Like it or not, it's a skill all spies have to master eventually. — Ally Carter

Birds are the eyes of heaven, and flies are the spies of hell. — Suzy Kassem

He always wants to expand every one's rights: illegal aliens, terrorists, Russian spies, except American citizens. — Rush Limbaugh

Some stories don't make movies. I mean superheroes, spies, serial killers ... sure. But there's some feelings you can't put on a screen. — Damon Suede

Waiting.
That's always what being a spy comes down to, isn't it? — Embee

I knew from experience of the past that this butchering of people was done for the express purpose of defeating the eight-hour movement. — August Spies

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

Everybody spies on everybody, I mean, that's just a fact. — Marco Rubio

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

My siblings and I had this theory that my parents were spies. — Dara Horn

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

With the threat of them being potential spies or saboteurs, nobody will argue against our actions, and history itself will vindicate us. — Evan Meekins

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

Whether they loved each other or not, they were lovers. And he was damned if he'd see her sucked into this brutal business. — Alan Furst

Spies and parents never sleep. — Linda Gerber