Spy Quotes - Page 3

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

I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me.

And many more Destructions played In this ghastly masquerade, All disguised, even to the eyes, Like Bishops, lawyers, peers, or spies.

I should probably bequeath the copyrights to my screenplay for Spies Like Us, just in case.

It is an ambassador's duty to stand up for his nation's foreign policy in any era and under any government whatsoever. Ambassadors are, in the full meaning of the term, titled spies.

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

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

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which uses it continually as a cultural allusion. It is not really clear in the end whether this 'cool' smile is the smile of humour or that of commercial complicity. This is also the case with pop, and its smile ultimately encapsulates all its ambiguity: it is not the smile of critical distance, but the smile of collusion

An ambassador has no need of spies; his character is always sacred.

I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me.

I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.

I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong.

You simply have to eventually fall under suspicion from somebody even by a wrong call. And then they can use this system to go back in time and scrutinize every decision you've ever made, every friend you've ever discussed something with. And attack you on that basis to sort to derive suspicion from an innocent life and paint anyone in the context of a wrongdoer.

I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.

We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave.

Like any good spy novel, the Cox Report alleges that Chinese spies penetrated four U.S. weapons research labs and stole important information on seven nuclear warhead designs.

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.

I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot.

Now, have I ever been tempted to break into a Krispy Kreme doughnut store in the middle of the night? Oh, yeah. God help us if I had a mini-bar stocked with cheesecake and chicken-fried steak.

The CIA runs the drone program in Pakistan solely, not with the military. Then there's a joint CIA-military program in Yemen, then the CIA is involved in a lot of use of spy drones around the world and in the proliferation of bases.

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

Life is a struggle and a good spy gets in there and fights.

Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided.