154 Quotes About Espionage

I think all artists struggle to represent the geometryof life in their own way, just like writers deal witharchetypes. There are only so many stories that you cantell, but an infinite number of storytellers.

He operated in a puerile, slimy world full of sly hints, insinuations.

Spy' is such a short ugly word. I prefer 'espionage.' Those extra three syllables really say something.

Out in the field, any connection with home just makes you weaker. It reminds you that you were once civilized, soft; and that can get you killed faster than a bullet through the head.

He and I, we're friends. Does that sound odd? Me, friends with a pinko journalist?'Nothing sounded odd to Lamb; except, perhaps, that people had friends.

Why am I telling you this?''So you'll have an excuse to kill me?''That's probably it.

There's got to be at least some contact if they aren't going to lose their assets simply because someone dies before she gets around to telling her son or daughter "Oh, by the way. We're actually secret agents for the Mesan Alignment. Here's your secret decoder kit. Be ready to be contacted by the Galactic Evil Overlord on Frequency X with orders to betray the society you've been raised all your life to think of as your own.

To take command, one must first create the illusion that command is already yours.

A stolen intel could result after a night of pleasure, just as easily as death from a slit across the throat in the dark.