Kresley Cole Quotes

There is only one law of espionage—there are always going to be spies.

The way the United States intelligence community operates is it doesn't limit itself to the protection of the homeland. It doesn't limit itself to countering terrorist threats, countering nuclear proliferation. It's also used for economic espionage, for political spying to gain some knowledge of what other countries are doing.

This is the wonderful thing about espionage, nothing exists any more.

Espionage and counterespionage go together like horse and carriage.

I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.

The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story.

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.

Since real spies are so good, you never really know what actual spying is. But I do think spying is a lot more dangerous than we are led to believe.

My name is E. Howard Hunt. I'm currently retired from more than 22 years in the profession of espionage.

Espionage is largely separate from the mainstream of foreign policy … you nail the spy and you punish him, and you move on.

No one demands more caution than a spy, and when someone has the skeleton key to minds, counter him by leaving the key of caution inside, on the other side of the keyhole.

They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness.

Since real spies are so good, you never really know what actual spying is. But I do think spying is a lot more dangerous than we are led to believe.

It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies?

You couldn't trust anyone or anything that belonged to the world of espionage.

Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity; They cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness; Without subtle ingenuity of mind, one cannot make certain of the truth of their reports; Be subtle! be subtle! and use your spies for every kind of warfare; If a secret piece of news is divulged by a spy before the time is ripe, he must be put to death together with the man to whom the secret was told.

We can't spy on them if they aren't spying on us, now can we?" Warped logic, but okay.

The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely.

I've met enough KGB colonels in my life.

The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.

With stealth technology, the U.S. could spy on its Cold War adversaries without running the risk of getting caught.

I am always up to steal secrets from smart people.

Ask yourself: if I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn't I have flown directly into Beijing? I could be living in a palace petting a phoenix by now.

Since that time I have had continuous contact with the persons who were completely unknown to me, except that I knew they would hand whatever information I gave them to the Russian authorities.

Who would have thought that in the 1950s, Burbank was a hotbed of international espionage?