Top 24 Mi6 Quotes
#1. Better we see them seeing us, because then we can all see together, but when not seeing them seeing us we might not see them seeing us doing what we are doing. MI5 agent Iona von Ustinov (father of actor Peter Ustinov) to MI6 agent Desmond Bristow about the PDVE (Portuguese Secret Police) in 1944.
Desmond Bristow
#2. As Far As People Who Ran The Show, It Was The Highest Levels of NATO, the U.S., MI6, CIA And The Pentagon
Sibel Edmonds
#3. Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
Marcus Sakey
#4. We already have the cops, the FBI and the CIA looking for us, not to mention the enemy. The last thing we need is for MI6 to get in on the hunt, too. -Cade Knight
Brian Bern
#5. Every human community will disappoint us, regardless of how well-intentioned or inclusive.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#6. Suppose it really was a school for magic. Was it any good? What if he'd stumbled into some third-tier magic college by accident? He had to think practically. He didn't want to be committing himself to some community college of sorcery when he could have Magic Harvard or whatever. "Don't
Lev Grossman
#7. One of the things to be learnt about spying is that the least likely is the most probable.
--Sir Dick White, Head of MI6, 1956-1968
John Knoerle
#8. Advice to young Samuel Gompers that might apply in many other areas: Learn from socialism, but don't join it.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#10. I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.
John Le Carre
#11. Foaly: Anyone see you come in here?
Holly: The FBI, CIA, NSA, DEA, MI6. Oh, and the EIB.
Foaly: The EIB?
Holly: (smirking) Everyone in the building.
Eoin Colfer
#12. Put off finish as it takes a lifetime - wait until later to try to finish things - make a lot of starts.
Charles Webster Hawthorne
#13. I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.
Grace Jones
#14. Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.
Remy De Gourmont
#15. She heard music. Angels singing? she thought, dizzy. It seemed odd for angels to sing after table sex. She managed to swallow on a throat wildly dry. "Music," she murmured.
"My phone. In my pants. Don't care."
"Oh. Not angels."
"No. Def Leppard.
Nora Roberts
#16. With a true friend one experiences something in the nature of spiritual enjoyment?
Nikolai Gogol
#17. In my day, MI6 - which I called the Circus in the books - stank of wartime nostalgia. People were defined by secret cachet: one man did something absolutely extraordinary in Norway; another was the darling of the French Resistance. We didn't even show passes to go in and out of the building.
John Le Carre
#18. And when we take ourselves too seriously, we are grim about the brothers and sisters, especially the dissenting ones, and there will be no health in us and no healing humor.
Walter Brueggemann
#19. Not that I am cheering for him or anything, but if he can't see how amazing you are, he's an idiot.
-Aspen
Kiera Cass
#20. There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
Don Marquis
#21. You better stand tall when they're calling you out, don't bend, don't break, and don't back down!
Jon Bon Jovi
#22. The CIA's offices in London were no secret to the MI6. In fact, the two agencies were practically kissing cousins.
Kenneth Eade
#23. SIS, the Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6, also has no executive powers and operates abroad on CIA lines, but with a tiny percentage of the budget and a tiny percentage of the personnel.
John Le Carre
#24. I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit.
John Le Carre
