154 Quotes About Espionage

... there were no clocks in the mansion, anywhere.

I became an excellent thief, and soon learned that the contents of a man’s letters are more valuable than the contents of his purse

We all know I won't be killed because of this stupid allegation of espionage, but because I decided to be who I always dreamed. And the price of a dream is always high.

The angel of death can hardly have friends. And the prom, what about Danny? He can hardly have a Valkyrie for his date.

Some men will never be heroes, some heroes will never be men, he thought, with urgent acknowledgements to Joseph Conrad.

The glitters of the skies, almost wickedly, distracted one from the vast empty spaces between them where even the time bent to pay its dues. For all the plans Abhimanyu had made, his destiny had already put into motion a set of events a thousand miles away in Kashmir that would change his life forever.

Operatives (spies), as well as agents, typically fall into three categories - the idealists, the money-hungry and the afraid."Walter Talbot, CIA Head of Station, Paris

Eyes closed, she let her pain float away with the prayers, higher and higher, around the mosque's minarets, and up to the sky. She thought about the old Arabic saying that a woman has only two exits. One exit leads from my father's house to my husband's. The other leads from my husband's house to my grave. I'm not ready for the second exit yet.

He tried to recall the look of her eyes the day they first met. He closed his eyes and concentrated, but as he envisioned Kalila's car passing by, he couldn't decide if it was a memory or a dream.