Spies Quotes

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
William Shakespeare

Single, Sorrows, Battalions

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

Surrounded, Voluntary

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

Truth, Hate, Facts

I love the idea of spies in love. How would it work between two people who were so programmed to lie and be suspicious, who have a whole life based on pretence?
Tony Gilroy

Life, Love, Work

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

Took, Happened, Bin

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

Few, Secrets, Shame

Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.
John le Carre

Life, Marriage, Hope

I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest.
Elia Kazan

Time, Understand, Between

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

Training, Watch, Basic

Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist.
Anthony Horowitz

Writing, Magic, Exist

You basically have a group of four spies who are chosen for a mission they feel for the fact of how competent they are and how their expertise and they're the right one for the job. But ultimately they find out they've been actually chosen for their incompetence.
Matt LeBlanc

Job, Find, Fact

No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps.
Steve Forbes

Silent, Labor, Eye

Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautiful woman, no doubt very rich and very troubled. Anything can happen and usually does on the Orient Express.
Morley Safer

Beautiful, Woman, Doubt

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.
Charles Foster Bass

Good, Important, Research

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

Talking, Knew, Grave

I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they don't readily advertise themselves unless they're not living in Moscow, and even then. I'm sure I've met some without realizing it.
Jeremy Northam

Living, Themselves, Loved

Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict diligence observed in the duty of sentinels.
William Henry Ashley

War, Point, Might

We need spies that look like their targets, CIA officers who speak the dialects terrorists use, and FBI agents who can speak to Muslim women who might be intimidated by men.
Jane Harman

Women, Men, Speak

A number of Americans were used, most often unwillingly, by North Korea to arm spies with English-speaking skills so they could target American interests in South Korea and beyond.
Robert Jenkins

American, Often, Used

I play Dr. Karen Boyer in 'Spies Like Us.' She's strong, intelligent and dedicated and just happens to be beautiful.
Donna Dixon

Beautiful, Strong, Play

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