Classic Spy Quotes

You'll have to do better than that chaps, if you want to kill me! ~ A.F. Stewart

She holstered her weapon, raising the hem of her skirts and stepping lightly around the dead bodies. ~ A.F. Stewart

Ri, here's a question for you," Stella started. She opened it up to everyone else, as well. "When do your kids stop being pets and start being people?"
The room went silent, except for Gloria trying to stifle her giggles.
Stella looked around and felt pleased that she'd gotten the desired reaction.
"What are you talking about? How could you call children pets?" Shannon demanded before Bernadette had the chance to.
"No, this is an honest question." Stella insisted. "You have them, you name them. They're helpless, and you teach, or train, them. Feed them, water them, whatever. And as they grow up, you just hope that they grow up well and don't spend their time clawing your nice sofa or humping your leg."
Stella, "Sugar and Spies: Spy Sisters Book 1 ~ Rebekah Martin

What do you mean, is that it? I just saved his career and the CIA from ruin and he calls me a perfidious ass."
"What's perfidious mean?" Ace asked from the driver's seat.
"You deceived him and stole his girlfriend out from under his nose," Julia said to Conrad. "I think technically 'ass' is a pretty mild revilement."
"Revilement?" Ace looked at one and then the other in his rearview. "This is some kind of spy talk, isn't it? Okay, I'm down with it. Just tell me what it means. ~ Misty Evans

Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words. ~ Stendhal

I think of 'Liar & Spy' as completely different and actually not at all like a 'When You Reach Me'-type story. I feel like 'Liar & Spy' has a much quieter, more emotional revelation. ~ Rebecca Stead

It is illegal for the CIA to spy on Americans and an affront to our Republic to spy on the Senate. ~ Rand Paul

The sign above the door was written in French. It read: ARRÊTE ! C'EST ICI L'EMPIRE DE LA MORT.
"That means," he explained to Gini, "'Stop! It is here the Empire of Death. ~ Paul Aertker

You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters. ~ Ian McEwan

When I was a lot younger, my parents raised me watching classic movies. ~ Sara Paxton

Everybody thinks it's glamorous and this spy versus spy stuff is so exciting, but working in that industry and being a CIA operative, like a field officer, is tough. That's a difficult job that usually dismantles their lives in some capacity. ~ Ryan Reynolds

I'm not a spy, which is the real question ~ Edward Snowden

I have a very classic take on fashion. I like my accessories to pop, but in general, my style is pretty classic. ~ Ashley Greene

I really like all music, but mostly Country, older R&B, and the good classic rock. ~ Brett Favre

Spy novels are traditionally about lone wolves, but how many people actually live like that? ~ Alan Furst

I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me. ~ Salman Rushdie

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

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness. ~ Edith Wharton

I spy with my little eye a great story. ~ John Green

A murderer is less loathsome to us than a spy. The murderer may have acted on a sudden mad impulse; he may be penitent and amend; but a spy is always a spy, night and day, in bed, at table, as he walks abroad; his vileness pervades every moment of his life ~ Honore De Balzac

A classic is read not to enjoy but only to be boast about it. ~ Aman Jassal

She craved a family, not having had enough of one to understand what a pain in the ass it was. ~ Maile Meloy

It was awesome and liberating to play a Russian spy. ~ Lucas Till

'CLUE' is a spin on the classic board game. It uses the original characters and weapons, but it goes even further in depth than the classic who-kills-who idea. ~ Sterling Beaumon

Being a spy was something like standing on the south shore fending off a hurricane with a $2 poncho and an umbrella. ~ Lynn Blackmar

I read a lot of books for information, like doctor books, spy books ... ~ William S. Burroughs

I always loved the idea of a spy movie and part of it came from my personal love of spy movies. It started when I was growing up as a little kid in the 60s. ~ John Lasseter

I think it was the sense that Turn is a spy thriller, and that's a genre that really fascinates me, in general. ~ Jamie Bell

The government can spy on people using their mobile phones while they're with their wives and husbands. ~ John McAfee

My perception of making a movie before I started making movies was that it would be like 'Spy Kids'. ~ Katie Chang

I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight. ~ Edward Snowden

He was seized and dragged off to King Philip, and being asked who he was, replied, A spy upon your insatiable greed . ~ Diogenes

I began writing fiction because it was the only way to tell all the intricacies of a real-life spy story. ~ David Ignatius

Breaking a cardinal rule of spy craft, I actually let it be known that I wanted to work for the CIA. ~ James Luceno

My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education. ~ Vladimir Putin

Diabetes is passed that way
over and down, like a knight in chess. ~ Maile Meloy

The Beatles are a classical group because they're classic. ~ Nigel Kennedy

'Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read. ~ Mark Twain

Like any good spy novel, the Cox Report alleges that Chinese spies penetrated four U.S. weapons research labs and stole important information on seven nuclear warhead designs. ~ Charles Bass

In 1996, when my first novel, 'Masquerade,' was published, I knew international thrillers - or spy novels, if you prefer - had been the domain of male authors for decades. ~ Gayle Lynds

I try to be classic without being mumsy. ~ Jane Asher

Governments don't spy on you for your protection, they spy on you to see if you're planning a revolt. ~ Lori Goodwin

I like to do things that are classic. ~ Elsa Peretti

Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe. ~ Agnes Smedley

To be involved with movies that become kind of cult classics ... I've been very fortunate. 'The Warriors' is certainly a cult classic, and 'Xanadu' is, to a certain degree, a cult classic as well. ~ Michael Beck

I equally love both, classic rock and hip-hop. I love all music, really, and I really use classic rock a lot. I'm heavily influenced by that melodically in my music. I can't really separate the two. ~ Yelawolf

My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre. ~ Jake Gyllenhaal

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it. ~ John Le Carre

Spy' is such a short ugly word. I prefer 'espionage.' Those extra three syllables really say something. ~ Howard Tayler

When I set out to research the story of the Culper Spy Ring, I had no idea where it would take me. ~ Brian Kilmeade

I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me. ~ Elizabeth Hurley

Back in 1944 when people were normal and there was a world war on,' says Paul to his son, 'it was a serious thing to be a spy. ~ Muriel Spark

Our mobile phones have become the greatest spy on the planet. ~ John McAfee

My goal has always been to make classic records, classic albums. Sometimes the recording process and the era it was recorded in means the production leans in a particular way, but to me they are all part of the same process. ~ Steve Winwood

Graham Greene's work must be included in any survey of top-rank spy novels, and 'Our Man in Havana' may be his best. ~ Alan Furst

The original 'Scream' is one of those classic things, but it totally pokes fun at itself too. It's never taking itself too seriously, which is why I think it's such a cult classic. ~ Shenae Grimes

Good neighbors always spy on you to make sure you are doing well. ~ Pawan Mishra

All seems infected that th' infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. ~ Alexander Pope

I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on what classic Italian cooking is. ~ Mario Batali

The Spy Act prohibits keystroke logging, hijacking, and phishing. ~ Cliff Stearns

Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it? ~ Mark Twain

A classic is like a cow: it gives fresh milk every morning. A classic is a book that rewards endlessly repeated reading. A classic is like the morning, like nature herself: ever young, ever renewing. No, not even like nature, for she, like us, is doomed to die. Only God is ever young, and only the Book he inspired never grows old. ~ Peter Kreeft

The U.S. obviously has all the evidence they need to prosecute bankers. They just need to search their own spy database and then there you go - 1,000 bankers in jail, a trillion dollars in fines. But it doesn't happen. Instead, the spy network is being used to fight a copyright case. They used Prism to spy on me. ~ Kim Dotcom

When people ask me whether I am a spy –'are you now, or have you ever been?' –I am tempted to reply with a hearty –'Yes, and since the age of five.' For a state of watchfulness must surely be the first requisite of a writer, as it is of a secret agent. A writer, like a spy, must prey upon his neighbours; like a spy he is dependent on those whom he deceives; like a spy he must somehow contrive to keep a distance from his own feelings and by doing so conjure up a package that will meet with the approval of his masters. Like a spy, he is not merely an outsider, but implicitly a subversive.. ~ John Le Carre

You must be classic. Put yourselves before the model in a workmanlike spirit. ~ Andre Lhote

Of John Le Carre's books, I've only read 'The Spy Who Came In From The Cold,' and I haven't read anything by Graham Greene, but I've heard a great deal about how 'Your Republic Is Calling You' reminded English readers of those two writers. I don't really have any particular interest in Cold War spy novels. ~ Kim Young-ha

Kiril sat up and raked a hand through his hair. In the light of dawn, Shara was still on his mind. She was a Dark, a spy sent to monitor a spy. ~ Donna Grant

Choosing providers is not a choice between surveillance/not; it's just choosing which feudal lord gets to spy on you. ~ Bruce Schneier

I think it's more difficult now to write a spy thriller with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Many authors have tried, but few have succeeded in capturing the interest of readers. ~ Nelson DeMille

However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it. ~ Christine Keeler

The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive. ~ George Santayana

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a spy detective or a rock star. ~ Jill Sobule

According to The Washington Post, the NSA has been monitoring phone calls and emails of people in Mexico. So apparently it's not enough to spy on American citizens, they feel they have to spy on FUTURE American citizens as well. ~ Jay Leno

Kids like classic rock, and so do adults. ~ Wolfman Jack

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. ~ Edward Snowden

Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it. ~ Igor Stravinsky

I was inspired by the classic rock radio of the Seventies. They separated Chuck Berry and the Beatles from the Led Zeppelins and Bostons and Peter Framptons of the time. In many ways, classic rock became bigger than mainstream rock. ~ Chuck D

But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy. ~ John Le Carre

Coming out of 'Spy Kids,' I immediately wanted to do more grown-up roles, and I was turning down a lot of the kind of younger, cheesier roles. ~ Daryl Sabara

I didn't know what was more disturbing - the fact that something was obviously wrong, or that three faculty members of the world's premiere spy school had forgotten to lock the door. ~ Ally Carter

Ghostery lets you spy on the spies in your computer. For each web page you visit, this extension uncloaks some - but not all - of the invisible tracking software that is working behind the scenes. ~ Barton Gellman

The cool thing about 'Spy Kids 3D: Game Over' was that Robert Rodriguez brought back 3D. I feel like he did with that film. Now, every film is 3D. ~ Daryl Sabara

„Are you a good spy?"
„The best."
„A good spy would hide her identity."
„The best spies don't have to. ~ Renee Ahdieh

I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime. ~ Yelawolf

I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help. ~ Julia Child

Experts say that Britain and France have strong spy agencies; Germany's is competent but afraid to level with its public; the rest are relatively weak, and there is no Europe-wide spy agency. ~ David Ignatius

I always liked spy stories. ~ Walter Wager

I love the spy genre. ~ Chris Pine

Slightly embarrassing admission: Even when I was a kid, I used to have these little spy books, and I would, like, see what everybody was doing in my neighborhood and log it down. ~ Heather Brooke

I was a classic attention deficit disorder kid, always bored and mouthing off at school. ~ Stephen Rodrick

VH1 Classic is the destination for people who would be interested in a music talk show. ~ Eddie Trunk

The classic think-tank is supposed to be sitting in an attic thinking up grand ideas. ~ Geoff Mulgan

Italians stay so true to their classic silhouettes and the things that they've always done. ~ Candice Huffine

Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'. ~ Russell Baker

Emotionally, shows like 'Cheers' and 'Taxi' were classic sitcoms when I was growing up. ~ Dan Harmon

I've always supported new music from classic bands, especially if it's good. ~ Eddie Trunk

I'm not writing just classic-sounding songs, but songs that come from experience. ~ Leon Bridges

I am interested in classic building development, such as hotels and residential homes, rather than commercial properties. ~ Yelena Baturina

Mack Bolan is a classic American hero. Readers like him and I feel very good about that. ~ Don Pendleton

'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of. ~ Wendell Pierce