Top 100 Spy Quotes
#1. Like any good spy novel, the Cox Report alleges that Chinese spies penetrated four U.S. weapons research labs and stole important information on seven nuclear warhead designs.
Charles Bass
#2. If someone seems to have changed from one session to another, make sure you haven't changed instead. A warning from his mother, once upon a time, delivered as if she'd upended a box of spy-advice fortune cookies and chosen one at random.
Jeff VanderMeer
#3. I am not 'I am' but just a spy in somebody's body.
Jack Kerouac
#4. I like to take certain aspects of genre fiction and modify them in my own way. 'Your Republic Is Calling You' follows the form of a spy novel, but it leads readers into a world of Kafkaesque irrationality.
Kim Young-ha
#5. We din't speak much from then 'cos speakin' can be heard by spyers what you can't spy.
David Mitchell
#6. The cool thing about 'Spy Kids 3D: Game Over' was that Robert Rodriguez brought back 3D. I feel like he did with that film. Now, every film is 3D.
Daryl Sabara
#7. All in all, he looked kind of ... dangerous. Like he could kick somebody's ass, big time, but with style. Like a suave, tough-guy super spy.
Kristin Walker
#8. The Tempus, a young woman, fair with light brown hair, bowed her head to him. So she knew to acknowledge a dragon lord, though that wasn't the role he played in his life these days. A respectful spy. How quaint.
Erin Kellison
#9. Le Carre's voice - patrician, cold, brilliant and amused - was perfect for the wilderness-of-mirrors undertow of the Cold War, and George Smiley is the all-time harassed bureaucrat of spy fiction.
Alan Furst
#10. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: Theatrical Trailer (Courtesy of Focus
John Le Carre
#11. Your dreams should always be written on your heart. If you have written on a paper many may spy .
Osunsakin Adewale
#12. In my head, I think I'd make a perfect spy, but in reality, I don't think I'd fare very well.
Matthew Rhys
#13. I had to do something. A young man came into my home for protection. Is he dangerous? No. Is he a spy? No. Is he a traitor? No. He's just a Jewish teenager who wants to leave.
Chiune Sugihara
#16. Glass is the world's worst spy camera. If you want to surreptitiously take photos, I would not use Glass.
Astro Teller
#17. She was a Privately funded spy ship owned by the corporation and headed by Juan Cabtillo. The Oregon was his brain child and his one true love.
Clive Cussler
#18. The most temptation I'd experienced had been with Tomas, the Senate's spy who had been feeding off me without permission, and Mircea, who was probably plotting some nefarious scheme. I have no taste in men.
Karen Chance
#19. he had never been meant to be a spy; he was a soldier. a soldier kept his sanity by distancing himself from his enemies, making them something far away and almost inhuman; merely an idea that bled when you stabbed it.
Grace Crandall
#20. If you grow up between cultures, if you get accustomed to traveling, it's easy to find yourself always on the outside of things, looking in. This can be ideal for a writer - or a spy; you've always got, analytically, a ticket out.
Pico Iyer
#21. No one should ever be locked away simply because they share the same race, ethnicity, or religion as a spy or terrorist. If that principle was not learned from the internment of Japanese Americans, then these are very dangerous times for our democracy.
Fred Korematsu
#22. The spy boom has been a beautiful windfall for architects, construction companies, IT specialists, and above all defense contractors, enriching thousands of private companies and dozens of local economies hugging the Capital Beltway.
Rachel Maddow
#23. Ghostery lets you spy on the spies in your computer. For each web page you visit, this extension uncloaks some - but not all - of the invisible tracking software that is working behind the scenes.
Barton Gellman
#24. Blake took a small roll from the tray on the table, then put it back in favor of a larger one. And maybe a little butter. It certainly couldn't hurt. And jam ... no, he drew the line at jam. She was a spy, after all.
Julia Quinn
#25. A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other ... until death do them join.
Elbert Hubbard
#26. That's what I love about the mockumentary style, is the added thing of people knowing they are on-camera, which changes your behavior. That's why we sometimes do what we call spy shots.
Paul Feig
#27. In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's a spy and he's a little bit theatrical and overblown and smug and he's not very good at his job.
Rowan Atkinson
#28. Chills crept up my back. It may seem like nothing to a normal person, but I wasn't normal. I was a spy. And it takes a lot for someone like me to get chills. The scariest part was that I knew it wasn't from the coolness of the morning. Something felt wrong today; I just couldn't figure out what.
Embee
#29. Governments don't spy on you for your protection, they spy on you to see if you're planning a revolt.
Lori Goodwin
#30. Obviously, 'Homeland' is not just a spy thriller. It's more than that, but 'Tyrant' will be a bit more of a palace drama. It'll be about the families, but there will be political intrigue as well.
Adam Rayner
#31. We can't spy on them if they aren't spying on us, now can we? Warped logic, but okay.
Gena Showalter
#33. Tell me immediately who those people are in that glass capsule!' 'Ah-ha,' said the Chief Spy, twirling his false moustache.
Roald Dahl
#34. Waiting.
That's always what being a spy comes down to, isn't it?
Embee
#35. I watched in silence as the parts of Matthew I knew and loved - the poet and the scientist, the warrior and the spy, the Renaissance prince and the father - fell away until only the darkest, most forbidding part of him remained. He was only the assassin now. But he was still the man I loved.
Deborah Harkness
#36. So I stepped away, reminding myself that when you're a spy, sometimes all you can do is go on. One foot in front of the other, wherever the narrow path might lead.
Ally Carter
#37. The girl had so many evasive maneuvers, I was starting to think she was a trained spy.
Cindi Madsen
#38. I don't expect people who've enjoyed 'Spy Kids' will enjoy 'Repo! the Genetic Opera!'
Alexa Vega
#39. 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.
Keri Russell
#40. I think of 'Liar & Spy' as completely different and actually not at all like a 'When You Reach Me'-type story. I feel like 'Liar & Spy' has a much quieter, more emotional revelation.
Rebecca Stead
#41. Charles Kiss is a legendary James Bond-style British spy. And McGrath is the young idealist who is given the task of following in his footsteps. It's a mission that forces McGrath to question everything he thought he believed in.
Peter Milligan
#42. But one thing was for certain: something would happen next. Something always did. Especially when you live the life of a spy.
Embee
#43. A bitter, disappointed, and jealous man kills the man he believes to be his wife's lover, this you consider to be unlikely. A murderous Nazi spy with orders to abduct a parrot, on the other hand -
Michael Chabon
#44. 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.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
#45. I am a spy. Not some rooftop-jumping archer, shield-wielding super-soldier, or shiny-metal philanthrobot. I need to make that clear on my business card. Espionage is shadow warfare. Cold combat. Does anything about this feel cold to you?
Nathan Edmondson
#46. Our mobile phones have become the greatest spy on the planet.
John McAfee
#47. Two days after my dad's funeral, my mom went on a mission. I never understood it until then
that sometimes a spy doesn't need a cover so much as she needs a shield.
Ally Carter
#48. I just wanted to buy a spy novel. I didn't want to be in one.
Jeffrey Westhoff
#49. Young people looking for adventure fiction now generally turn to fantasy, but for those of a certain age, the spy thriller has long been the escape reading of choice.
Michael Dirda
#50. If I could rub a genie and anything could happen? Truthfully, my other love, and this is a complete 180, but I'd love to do a spy or an espionage pic, like a James Bond movie.
Chris Diamantopoulos
#51. We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own.
John Le Carre
#52. But the man continuing to exclaim, "Down, Evremonde!" the face of Evremonde is for a moment turned towards him. Evremonde then sees the Spy, and looks attentively at him, and goes his way.
Charles Dickens
#53. 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.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#54. I'm not a spy for Russia or China or any other country for that matter.
Edward Snowden
#55. I end up feeling like a spy in the house of ethnicity, you know? Because people will talk around me as they would talk around the people in their cultural group. So I get to hear all the secrets and jokes and you know, I'm a part of every community because of the way I look.
Sherman Alexie
#56. He went on like that for a while, and before he was done, Lucas had dismissed him as being ineffectually goofy, although his ideas about the killing were roughly the same as Lucas's own. Holly said he had no idea who on the staff might have been involved with Tubbs, or might be working as a spy.
John Sandford
#57. Ben starts. "I Spy with my little eye something I really like."
"Oh I know," Radar says. "It's the taste of balls."
"No."
"Is it the taste of penises?" I guess.
"No, dumbass."
"Hmm," says Radar. "Is it the smell of balls?"
"The texture of balls?
John Green
#58. The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
Graham Greene
#59. 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.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#60. I spy the eyes before me to be those of the celestial warrior the legends of men call Michael.
Jon Steele
#61. I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.
Gary Oldman
#62. Can it be entirely accidental that the most famous fictional spy of them all, James Bond, Number 007, deadly marksman, intriguer, the ultimate man behind the curtain, sexual athlete and ruthless patriot, is also a Scot, as was the author, whose wish-fulfilment he was?
Linda Colley
#63. I Spy with my little eye a hero's heart, a heart that beats not for itself but for all humanity."
"I'M NOT BEING MODEST. I JUST DIDN'T WANT TO DIE," Ben exclaims.
John Green
#64. A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.
Marcus Aurelius
#65. Sir 8:14 Stand not against the face of an injurious person, lest he sit as a spy to entrap thee in thy words.
Various
#66. She tried to imagine her former self. Enemy. Prisoner. Friend? Daughter. Spy. Prisoner again. "What am I now?"
Sarsine held both of Kestrel's hands. "What ever you want to be.
Marie Rutkoski
#67. The Sword the burning decieved rising the science fiction the betrayed the spy the souls
Moira Young
#68. I swear I am happy. I have realized that the only happiness in this world is to observe, to spy, to watch, to scrutinize oneself and others, to be nothing but a big, slightly vitreous, somewhat bloodshot, unblinking eye. I swear that this is happiness.
Vladimir Nabokov
#69. You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.
Ian McEwan
#70. I spy with my little eye a great story.
John Green
#71. I wrote 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' at the age of 30 under intense, unshared personal stress and in extreme privacy. As an intelligence officer in the guise of a junior diplomat at the British Embassy in Bonn, I was a secret to my colleagues, and much of the time to myself.
John Le Carre
#72. If you live with death threats, you need friends. So you have to risk that they might spy on you.
Herta Muller
#73. I bought me a spy-glass some weeks since. I buy but a few things, and those not till long after I begin to want them, so that when I do get them I am prepared to make a perfect use of them and extract their whole sweet.
Henry David Thoreau
#74. Rules and Things Number 63: Never, Ever Say Something Bad About Someone You Don't Know
Especially When You're Around a Bunch of Strangers. You Never Can Tell Who Might Be Kin to That Person or Who Might Be a Lip-Flapping, Big-Mouth Spy.
Christopher Paul Curtis
#75. Caution is a spy's best friend; paranoia is his enemy.
Jack Barsky
#76. Ramona wasn't at home anywhere. She felt like a spy in life and the ending of every great book and each orgasm, and the sight of every homeless shopping bag lady infected her with a titanic yearning for the world to make an unscheduled stop.
Ann Druyan
#77. I think in some ways what Snowden is, is he's a mix of a cold war spy novel and post-9/11 spy novel.
Alex Berenson
#78. The burden of a spy, Lord Akeldama always said, was not in the knowing of things but in knowing when to tell such things to others.
Gail Carriger
#79. I invented the historical spy novel.
Alan Furst
#80. That was the problem with training to be a spy and developing your senses to the point that I had. Now, I was constantly alert
even when I wanted to relax, I couldn't. I was always waiting for someone to jump out and attack me.
Embee
#81. In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning.
William Hull
#82. The ISI is above all a paramilitary organization. It doesn't do all that much collection of intelligence. It's not a very good spy agency, but it's good at running covert action.
David Ignatius
#83. I've been called a spy of Israel since 1996, and since I made my documentary film in 2000 the FBI has investigated me as an agent of Iraq. The FBI has also opened up an investigation into my wife calling her a KGB spy.
Scott Ritter
#84. He had the air of a spy in a melodrama, missing nothing, liking nothing, looking forward to the great day when everything would be turned upside down.
Kurt Vonnegut
#85. It was awesome and liberating to play a Russian spy.
Lucas Till
#86. Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible
Kurt Vonnegut
#87. They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses ... we engaged a spy.
Zebulon Pike
#88. 'Homeland' is a thriller with a lot of cloak and dagger spy stuff, which is one of the things that makes it so much fun.
Adam Rayner
#89. A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
John Le Carre
#90. He was one of the masters of the thriller and he really was one of the great signposts, because he took the spy thriller out of the gentility of the drawing room and into the back streets of Istanbul and where it all really happened, ... The Day of the Jackal.
Frederick Forsyth
#91. The government can spy on people using their mobile phones while they're with their wives and husbands.
John McAfee
#92. The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.
Aldrich Ames
#93. I grew up on all of the great spy movies and TV series of the Sixties - not just Bond, but Derek Flint and the Avengers and Modesty Blaise and the Man from UNCLE and on and on. Every time I sit down to work on Cinderella, I'm writing a love letter to all of those characters.
Chris Roberson
#94. What I really found was that the one similarity between 'Covert Affairs' and 'Fair Game' is a deep love and admiration and fascination with the home life of a spy.
Doug Liman
#95. Every time I walk by a spy shop, I think that I need to put some surveillance on somebody. Rick's been acting fishy! I need to buy a safe that looks like a Spray 'N Wash can. "Hey, Mitch, can I use the Spray 'N Wash?" "Yeah, if you want to spray your shirt with documents!"
Mitch Hedberg
#96. She was 18. I used to spy on her. I hated her but was sexual aroused by her nonetheless".
Harold
Stuart Francis
#97. part spy thriller, part cultural and political reclamation, The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#98. 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.
Pia Zadora
#99. It's a thrilling world, and people really like stories about secrets, which is the essence of a spy drama.
Andrew Scott
