Spy Quotes

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a spy detective or a rock star.

A very, very impressive director, Tomas Alfredson. It's only his second film [ 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy'], but he's a real find.

I know not every mom is a secret KGB spy, but every mom has this whole other life. Every dad and every person has this whole other life.

Life is a struggle and a good spy gets in there and fights.

Everybody spies on everybody, I mean, that's just a fact.

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

It is an ambassador's duty to stand up for his nation's foreign policy in any era and under any government whatsoever. Ambassadors are, in the full meaning of the term, titled spies.

I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot.

I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me.

Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.

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

I played the mom in Spy Kids when I was, like, 27. So it was ridiculous. But [Robert Rodriguez] was like, "You know what? If we do our job right, no one will question it." And nobody did.

Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat.

The Soul unto itself Is an imperial friend, - Or the most agonizing Spy - An Enemy - could send -

I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.

A handful of red sand from the hot clime Of Arab deserts brought, Within this glass becomes the spy of Time, The minister of Thought.

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.

Some people think my father was a spy, because of working for that government agency in Vietnam, but he can't find his car keys, much less keep a national secret.

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

Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.

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

I wasn't a spy. I'd have been spotted in five seconds. Yes, I was in intelligence, but that covered a multitude of things.

I spy, with my little eye, something that starts with ... G." "Sausages.

I invented the historical spy novel.

We reject the use of national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime.

In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger errors blind.

I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight.

Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal.

Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided.

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

Now I basically just read spy stories because they're about solving a puzzle within the constraints of history. It's the tick tock, the clockwork that I'm interested in.

Spy plots are hard, really hard.

I read a lot of books for information, like doctor books, spy books. . . .

Diabetes is passed that way -- over and down, like a knight in chess.

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

Having a relationship with people of questionable character is like playing with a razor blade on your skin, and pretending to observe that it is harmful to your body.

Sam took another sip of the pruno. It went down smoother this time, possibly because he no longer had feeling in his extremities.

The role of women has always been undervalued in the spy world, always undermined in terms of recognition. Unfairly so. It's a world that needs women.

I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.

I didn’t know what was more disturbing—the fact that something was obviously wrong, or that three faculty members of the world’s premiere spy school had forgotten to lock the door.

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

All these years I'd thought being a spy was challenging. Turns out, being a girl is the tricky part.

Turns out, you can take the girl out of the spy school, but you can never take the spy school out of the girl.

And as every spy knows, common enemies are how allies always begin.

I'm a spy, Cam. I was born to do this- to be this. It's in my blood. And I will do it until the day I die. It's who I am... The thing is I don't think you realise is... it's who you are too.

It's a thrilling world, and people really like stories about secrets, which is the essence of a spy drama.

Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist.

No one demands more caution than a spy, and when someone has the skeleton key to minds, counter him by leaving the key of caution inside, on the other side of the keyhole.

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

I’m really starting to like all this spy work,” Vee said. “When my normal life gets boring, all I have to do is sidle up next to you.