Espionage Quotes

Nothing can stop an enemy from picking wireless messages out of the free air - and nothing did.

[Blinker] Hall, operating on the quaint theory that the Navy might be needed for battle and that wha...

Even though we don't know which companies the NSA has compromised – or by what means – knowing that ...

Every time I do an interview people ask similar questions, such as "What is the most significant sto...

For a moment he came near to sharing their incredible belief—it would do no harm to mutter a prayer ...

Now that little problem of yours, this business of not knowing good men from bad men and villains fr...

It is often very useful for others to think you less intelligent than you are," Benedict said, his t...

If there's no sea-gull there's no meeting, Wicklow had said. No sea-gull means abort. That's my epit...

Do you know what love is? I'll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray.

There's no way out," he announced with satisfaction, "and no amount of wishful dreaming will produce...

Some men will never be heroes, some heroes will never be men, he thought, with urgent acknowledgemen...

Haydon had found his charm again. He could do that at the drop of a hat. He drew you and he repelled...

A man who lives a part, not to others but alone, is exposed to obvious psychological dangers. In its...

This is a war," Lemas replied. "It's graphic and unpleasant because it's fought on a tiny scale, at ...

We have to live without sympathy, don't we? That's impossible of course. We act it to one another, a...

I have a theory which I suspect is rather immoral,' Smiley went on, more lightly. 'Each of us has on...

Cheating was a concept both foreign and integral to the fighting of wars.