154 Quotes About Espionage

(Mackenzie) King, something of an innocent abroad, proved much slower to bite on the bullet of disillusion.

Your authority holds to espionage me over your inner jealous, more willingly, I patronage over my inner zealous

Your authority holds to espionage me over your inner jealous, more willingly, my mastery holds you to patronage over my inner zealous

I have a theory which I suspect is rather immoral,' Smiley went on, more lightly. 'Each of us has only a quantum of compassion. That if we lavish our concern on every stray cat, we never get to the centre of things.

I gather from what you have not said that he is an unmitigated scoundrel."R. smiled with his pale blue eyes."I don't know that I'd go quite so far as that. He hasn't had the value of a public-school education. His ideas of playing the game aren't quite the same as yours and mine. I don't know that I would leave a gold cigarette-case about when he was in the neighbourhood, but if he had lost money to you at poker and he had pinched your cigarette-case, he would immediately pawn it to pay you.

Intelligence analysts should be self-conscious about their reasoning processes. They should think about how they make judgments and reach conclusions, not just about the judgments and conclusions themselves.

To forgive the terrorists is up to God, but to send them there is up to me.

I believe, as I am sure you believe, that eventually everything is known. Eventually it will become to somebody's interest to tell. Secrets are like meat; they can be frozen or eaten but not kept.

There were moments when Szara suspected that many idealists drawn to Communism were, at heart, people with an appetite for clandestine life.