Top 169 Spies Quotes & Sayings

There are Russian spies here now. And if we're lucky, they'll steal some of our secrets and they'll be two years behind.

Writers are spies. Outsiders. Believers in the turning pages.

Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity; They cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness; Without subtle ingenuity of mind, one cannot make certain of the truth of their reports; Be subtle! be subtle! and use your spies for every kind of warfare; If a secret piece of news is divulged by a spy before the time is ripe, he must be put to death together with the man to whom the secret was told.

I love the combination of the words 'spies' and 'Balkans.' It's like meat and potatoes.

Waiting. Like it or not, it's a skill all spies have to master eventually.

I've known several spies who have wanted to become novelists. And novelists who became spies, of course.

But first, my friends, I need you to do something for me. We have two spies in the back of the auditorium.

The enemy's spies who have come to spy on us must be sought out, tempted with bribes, led away and comfortably housed. Thus they will become double agents and available for our service. It is through the information brought by the double agent that we are able to acquire and employ local and inward spies. It is owing to his information, again, that we can cause the doomed spy to carry false tidings to the enemy.

And many more Destructions played In this ghastly masquerade, All disguised, even to the eyes, Like Bishops, lawyers, peers, or spies.

I play Dr. Karen Boyer in 'Spies Like Us.' She's strong, intelligent and dedicated and just happens to be beautiful.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes.

I got nothing. Even the spies I'm spying on who are spying on other spies got nothing.

I grew up on the Roger Moore and Sean Connery Bond movies, so the DNA of my spies is extremely ridiculous and goofy.

I think I'm always interested in the people who aren't generals or master spies or royalty. The people caught in the crossfire.

I served 10 years on the U.S. House Intelligence Committee, and I had the distinct privilege of meeting with real U.S. spies throughout the globe.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

The fact of the matter is that the United States faces real threats from criminals, terrorists, spies, and malicious cyber actors.

When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.

I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest.

Spies are the ears and eyes of Princes.

In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.

There aren't enough secrets to go round anymore. Some spies are having to invent secrets in order to earn a living.

But it is almost impossible to communicate with them [one's spies in the enemy camp] and receive the information they possess ... Even when the general receives from his spies information of movements, he still knows nothing of those which may since have taken place, nor of what the enemy is going finally to attempt.

There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a desire for thrills. But the malady of our time is of those who become spies out of idealism.

Do you have spies in Clan Heavy?” “I have spies everywhere.” I looked at Andrea, who was hoarding bacon on her plate. “She had tea with Mahon’s wife.” Andrea said. Aunt B looked at her. “You and I need to work on your air of mystery.

The U.N. is an American-based bastion of foreign spies. Russia has more spies in the U.S. than there are members of the F.B.I.

Thoughts are to the Desires as Scouts and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired.

Spies go undercover. They take on different personas.

It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies?

The consequences of leaking sensitive information is that Americans and coalition forces die, and we lose trust with foreign spies, and our national security is put at risk.

My siblings and I had this theory that my parents were spies.

They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness.

From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big, bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'

That’s the thing about spies. Most of the secrets we keep are from each other.

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

The ultimate in disposing one's troops is to be without ascertainable shape. Then the most penetrating spies cannot pry in nor can the wise lay plans against you.

Spies are a most important element in water, because on them depends an army's ability to move.

It is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk under the bushes.

Obviously, anyone who has seen Mr. and Mrs. Smith knows that husband and wife married spies is something that I find particularly interesting.

He always wants to expand every one's rights: illegal aliens, terrorists, Russian spies, except American citizens.

Mr. Snowden did not start out as a spy, and calling him one bends the term past recognition. Spies don't give their secrets to journalists for free.

Spies go to bars for the same reason people go to libraries: full of information if you know where to ask.

Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended in by impersonating them.

The gossip will carry to Attolian spies, who will report to Relius, Attolia's master of spies, and he will carry the news to her." "Her secretary of the archives," murmured the magus. "Hmm?" asked the queen. "Secretary of the archives, Relius. Master of spies is so-" "Accurate?" "Overtly direct," said the magus. Eddis laughed.

It is quiet here and restful and the air is delicious. There are gardens everywhere and police spies lie in the bushes. There are nightingales in every garden, but police spies only in mine, I think. They sit under my windows in the darkness of the night and try to get a glimpse of how I spread sedition in Russia.

In the old days, spies had done they'd done because they loved their country, because they believed in what they were doing. But he'd never been given a choice. Nowadays, spies weren't employed. They were used.

Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity.

From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'

I just have this very simple idea about the rebel spies in the opening crawl of A 'New Hope' who steal the plans for the Death Star.

The life of spies is to know, not bee known.

Inside North Korea, we have many informants and spies watching everyone; they're paid by the government. Even a husband and wife can't trust each other.

It is ten thousand times cheaper to pay the best spies lavishly than even a tiny army poorly.

I should probably bequeath the copyrights to my screenplay for Spies Like Us, just in case.

An ambassador has no need of spies; his character is always sacred.

I won't stand idly by watching Janet Yellen radically transform the IRS into a leftist, Praetorian Guard that spies on Americans' private financial transactions.

At the end of the day, I like the spy genre, as opposed to the action movie genre, because spies are smart. The successful spies are the smarter spies.

Women have always been spies

Be subtle! be subtle! and use your spies for every kind of business.

The birds are the eyes of heaven, and the flies are the spies of hell.

Yet have I ever heard it said that spies and tale-bearers have done more mischief in this world than poisoned bowl or the assassin's dagger.