The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the double agent committee, controversially published his account of the operation in defiance of official secrecy.
I know it's not strictly sex that accounts for my straying the motive usually attributed to men. I think it's just too tempting to have two lives rather than one. Some people think that too much travel begets infidelity: Separation and opportunity test the bonds of love. I think it's more likely that people who hate to make choices to settle on one thing or another are attracted to travel. Travel doesn't beget a double life. The appeal of the double life begets travel.
Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!
I think all parents have a double life.
I'm second in doubles - double vodkas, double scotches.
Superman told me... that we needed to make a double... type of record... and so I answered: 'Okay, Superman. We will make... a double type of record but it won't be a double album because... Batman... didn't want a double album'
I like to think that with a double team, not every double team is going to be successful.
Whose gold is double with a careful hand, His cares are double.
If you told me I was at number 34 Blake Street, I'd immediately think 'double 17.' If I was at number 37, I'd think 'five, double 16.'
I take it personal when people don't double me. It's against my religion not to double me. It upsets me. It makes me think they're saying to themselves I don't have it anymore.
'Miele' is a code name for a girl who has a double life.
If you double the number of experiments you do per year you're going to double your inventiveness.
Half-caf, double-tall, non fat, whole-milk foam, bone-dry, half-pump mocha, half sugar in the raw, double cup, no lid, capp - to go.
Sometimes I'd knock on the door of somebody I was going to school with, so it was like living a double life.
Spring 2010 is the second season that I'm showing the double-breasted suit. I think the right double-breasted suit is young again.
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
[Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]
The problem to solve is, whether a single or a double government would be most advantageous; and, in considering that point, I am met by this difficulty - that I cannot see that the present form of government is a double government at all.
I have a stunt double. His name is Glen Levy, and he has the hardest punch in the world. Seriously - it's actually been recorded by National Geographic. He calls it the Hammer Fist. And he's my stunt double! He makes me look awesome.
In the early '90s, we discovered mutations that could double the normal life span of worms.
Is the brain, which is notably double in structure, a double organ, 'seeming parted, but yet a union in partition'?
Everything in life is a double-edged sword.
More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor
There's a double beauty whenever a swan
Swims on a lake with her double thereon.
Exiles see double, feel double, are double. When exiles see one place, they're also seeing - or looking for - another behind it.
I live more than a double life, honestly. I have so many personalities, I live more than a double life.
That's J, E, double F, J, A, double R, E , double T... I'm double J, Jeff Jarrett!
Any Reform Bill which is worth a moment's thought, or the smallest effort to carry it, must at least double, and it ought to do much more than double, the representation of the metropolitan boroughs and of all the great cities of the United Kingdom.
It's the old American Double Standard, ya know: Say one thing, do somethin' different. And of course this country is founded on the double standard. That's our history. We were founded on a very basic double standard: This country was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free.
I got one comment that I had a lot of double chins. I just laughed at it. I do have a double chin, so that's legit.
I hear it said of somebody that he is leading a double life. I think to myself: Just two?
For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment.
Once it has learned to dream the double, the self arrives at this weird crossroad and a moment comes when one realizes that it is the double who dreams the self.
A single girl must lead a double life don't you think?
What I love about Tadashi is that he isn't a designer that designs only for a double-zero. He designs for double-Ds, you know? Women of all shapes and sizes can wear him.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
... class differences in health represent a double injustice: life is short where its quality is poor.
I'm not especially interested in actors or their life, double, triple identities and all that.
To double your successes, you might have to double your failure rate.
I guess I lead a double life, and I must admit I'm happy with both.
I am alone so I dream of the being who has cured my solitude, who would be cured by solitudes. With its life, it brought me the idealizations of life, all the idealizations which give life a double, which lead life toward it summits, which make the dreamer too live by splitting.
The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.
There is no second baseman in the game who can turn the double play better [than Mark Lemke]. Why are people always looking for offense at that position? What's more important is getting outs, and turning the double is a huge factor in getting outs.
Life is too short to miss out on the beautiful things like a double cheeseburger.
The New Heaven and New Earth are like a double Millennium, Millennium for ever!-Double your pleasure, double your fun, double your Heaven that's never done!
I've been double-teamed my whole life. I know when a double team's coming. I know what side the guy's coming from. I know how to dribble out of it.
When I first got to the NFL, I didn't see no double coverage at all. I was getting single coverage. I was killing it. Then they were, 'all right, this guy can play and we have to double this guy.' Since probably like the 11th or 12th game my rookie year, I started to get double-teamed.
For years I've nursed a secret desire to spend the Fourth of July in a double hammock with a swingin' redheaded broad. But I could never find me a double hammock
In life's orchestra, the bike is the double bass. Hard to forget it
But centaurs never existed; there could never be So to speak a double nature in a single body Or a double body composed of incongruous parts With a consequent disparity in the faculties. The stupidest person ought to be convinced of that.
FORGIVE The People That Hurt You. God Will Pay You Back With Double The Joy...Double The Victory.
The reality is, the movies that were most impactful to me growing up, when I decided I wanted to make movies, I was going to see Woody Allen double features with my brother, back when they had double features.
Fame, if not double fac'd, is double mouth'd, And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds; On both his wings, one black, the other white, Bears greatest names in his wild aery flight.
It's nice not to have to live a double life.
My boy, that was a TV show. I used a stunt double. I always use a stunt double. Except in love scenes. I insist on doing those myself.
I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration.
'Genes, Girls, and Gamow' was an attempt, even more than 'The Double Helix,' to mix science with one's personal life. With 'The Double Helix,' no one had done it before, but I thought I'd try.
I feel like I can play point guard for any team in the league and average a double-double.
The first law I passed in my cabinet was a law eliminating the double salary for the prime minister and the ministers. I have a salary as member of parliament. I don't want a double salary. So it was a very important decision.
I don't wear a mask, I don't have a suit. It's not some CG double or a stunt double. The suffering the character [Doctor Strange ] goes through is immense!
The poet or storyteller who feels that he is competing with a superb double play in the World Series is a lost man. One would not want as a reader a man who did not appreciate the finesse of a double play.
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