Quotes on Spy

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

Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity.

Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.

I spy with my little eye a great story.

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

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.