Cloak and Dagger Quotes

It [the CIA] was not intended as a Cloak & Dagger Outfit. It was intended merely as a center for keeping the President of what was going on in the World…I never wanted the CIA to act as a spy organization. That was never the intention when it was organized.

O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands.

Janie: So you're a double agent? Cabel: Sure.That sounds sexy.

People would meet in darkness behind closed doors. It was almost that they seemed ashamed at what they were doing.

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.

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

There's always another secret.' -Kelsier

That’s the thing about spies. Most of the secrets we keep are from each other.

Be secret and discreet; the fairy favors are lost when not concealed.

Secrets are the blood of life. Every big thing is a secret, even when you know it, because you never know all of it. If you can know everything about anything, it is not worth knowing.

The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.

The best way to know and destroy an enemy is to pretend to become his friend.

I shall be as secret as the grave.

There are many difficult things in this world to hide, but a secret is not one of them.

Oh, Grey, no one really likes keeping secrets. The only thing that makes a secret fun is knowing that you weren't supposed to tell it.

What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives.

Secrets affect you more than you’d think. You lie to keep them hidden. You steer talk away from them. You worry someone’ll discover yours and tell the world. You think you are in charge of the secret, but isn’t it the secret who’s actually using you?

The life of spies is to know, not bee known.

Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared.

I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.

I'm so secretive that when someone asks me, Hey, can you keep a secret? I say That's none of your business.

That's the thing about conspiracy theories: in a comforting sort of way, they give rise to the feeling that someone, somewhere, knows what's going on.

I didn't think that and I didn't verbalize that to myself or within meetings that we ever had, but we wanted to make a hard-nosed, gritty, realistic spy thriller. Roger talked about using lenses. He shot hi-def, but using anamorphic lenses that he'd found from this warehouse. He was so thrilled with that. Him and Romain [Lacourbas] were just like kids in a toy store with their lenses.

Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.

Of all those in the army close to the commander, none is more intimate than the secret agent.