154 Quotes About Espionage
- Author Ellen Brazer
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Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and most remarkable race which has appeared in the world.— Winston S. Churchill
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- Author John Alejandro King a.k.a. The Covert Comic
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NOC, NOC, who isn't there?
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- Author Lynn Blackmar
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Being a spy was something like standing on the south shore fending off a hurricane with a $2 poncho and an umbrella.
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- Author Lynn Blackmar
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Being shaken to death by a Hawaiian tourist look-alike was not how Arena imagined her death.
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- Author Lynn Blackmar
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People who are different are considered ineffective. People who can’t hide their shortcomings are not considered a threat. A lot of spies rely on being unobtrusive, but we flat out flaunt the fact that we’re different, and those we try to get information from put us on an even lower level than the ones they don’t notice. They don’t believe we’re even capable of being a threat, and they misstep more than they might with someone they simply don’t know.
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- Author Kent Giles
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Some tyrants are brought to justice by those upon whom their boots have tread. Others simply fade into the fog of war and disappear like with the wind.
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- Author James Frazee
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I think Peter was murdered because of what he found out about the company.
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- Author Luke Harding
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The common theme here was contempt: a poisonous disregard for human life. For Vladimir Putin’s critics have an uncanny habit of turning up dead.
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- Author Cole Alpaugh
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Limp finally spoke. “Do you think you could kill a person and not get all crazy about it?
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