Quotes of: Spies Keyword

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

Christopher Koch

Snails mate faster than Farnsworths.” Georgie gave her a chastening look. “Eliza.” “Well, it’s true. I’ve watched.” “You’ve spied on Sir Roland?” “No, I’ve spied on snails.

Tessa Dare

Give rejection the finger, and rejection gives it back.

The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

For Mercier, it was the ceremony of the mass that eased his soul: the sweetish smoke trailing from the censer, the ringing of the bell, the Latin incantations of the priest. In Warsaw, he attended early mass, at a small church near the apartment, onc...

The Spies of Warsaw

The problem with a lot of people is that what they think is a virtue is actually a vice in disguise. It's much easier to convince yourself that you're reasonable and civilised, than soft and weak, isn't it?

The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

Psychopathy is like sunlight. Overexposure can hasten one’s demise in grotesque, carcinogenic fashion. But regulated exposure at controlled and optimal levels can have a significant positive impact on well-being and quality of life.

The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

Spies and parents never sleep.

Life

Shaggy existentialists in frayed sandals, dilettantes by the score, spies by the portfolio.

Jan Morris

What kind of plan B?" Hale asked. He was almost holding his breath when a voice answered, "My kind." Macey tried to read the look on his face then, but it was gone in a flash. It had been a simple moment of peace and joy and pure happiness. That voic...

Double Crossed: A Spies and Thieves Story

With his immaculately coiffured blond locks and his impeccable cut-glass accent, he looks, and sounds, like a dab hand. 'People are as nice as you make them,' he enunciates. 'Which gives you a heck of a lot of power over them, of course.

The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

William Shakespeare

Faramir: [to Frodo and Sam] My men tell me that you are Orc spies. Sam: Spies! Now wait just a minute! Faramir: Well, if you're not spies, then who are you? [they remain silent, Faramir sighs and sits] Faramir: Speak! Frodo: We are Hobbits of the Shi...

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

You cackle a lot, but don't lay any eggs.

Gang Spies

Women have always been spies.

The Princessa: Machiavelli For Women

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

Jane Austen

Claudius: When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions.

Hamlet

Without strong encryption, you will be spied on systematically by lots of people.

Whitfield Diffie

Our side has agents. Their side has spies.

Espionage and Covert Operations: A Global History

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

Jack Adams

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

John Updike

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

Barry Eisler