76 Quotes About Spies

Here, I stole it for you. Why don’t you tell me what it’s for.”“Aw, Sophronia, how thoughtful. You brought me a present!

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

You know how Washington and London feel about joint operations, Michael. It makes the politicians feel better.

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.

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

Right now, I couldn't have cared less if someone had waltzed across the room in a large flower costume with a sign saying GET YOUR BLACK TULIPS HERE. Every nerve in my body was on man-alert, screaming, "incoming!

Thieves, spies and other wise guys are working everywhere…including in branches of the U.S. government.

.. after all a photographer is a kind of spy bought by the highest bidder, a parasite who lives off war without fighting it…

I can’t tell you the things I know,” I repeated. “Why not?” “They aren’t my secrets to tell.