154 Quotes About Espionage

Life's a pitch, then you spy.

You say 'derogatory information' like there's some other kind.

So he was handsome. That fact did nothing to soften her feelings toward the walking interference she studied across the room.

The GCHQ staff were sporty, providing most of the players in the Foreign Office football team that won the Civil Service Football Cup in 1952. This could present some peculiar problems. When local reporters covered matches in Cheltenham, they were told they could name the goal-scorers of the visitors, but not of the local team. Reporting these games tested their copywriting skills to the very limits.

Langley bred a certain type of person with great intention. The human resources department required nearly as sophisticated of analysts as the foreign intelligence department. Apply the massive computing technology of the CIA to hiring, along with the naive appeal of the exciting, though perhaps not so lucrative life of a spy, and any headhunter would be jealous of the results.

Do you know what love is? I'll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray.

Misdirection. False signals. Spreading confusion. This is the Tao of deception.

This is a fast-paced, page-turner with suspense in every chapter.

Fly safe, little canary; I’ll miss you.