Spy Quotes

If quick, I survive.If not quick, I am lost.This is "death.

The role of women has always been undervalued in the spy world, always undermined in terms of recogn...

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through brib...

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

Afterwards Smiley always thought of that interview as a fan dance; a calculated progression of discl...

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...

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 ...

Don't give it to them all at once, make them work for it. Confuse them with detail, leave things out...

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

I could admire his skills, and be relieved when he was on my side in a fight. But for a rat to like ...

It is a shame that what happens today already happened yesterday, and will happen again tomorrow; it...

SpyThough at the moment I am a prisoner, my spirit remains free. While everyone is fighting a never-...

For millions of years, man spoke only to what he could see. Suddenly, in just one decade, 'seeing' a...

(On the myth of Eros)Each time I recall this myth, I wonder: Are we never to be able to see the true...