Quotes about Espionage

So the king of Jericho sent to Rahab and said, “Bring out the men who came to you and entered your house, for they have come to spy out the whole land.”

Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying at En-rogel, where a servant girl would come and pass along information to them. They in turn would go and inform King David, for they dared not be seen entering the city.

No," Daito said. "We're not. You're all strangers to us. For all we know, any one of you could be a Sixer spy.

I am indeed a fan of John le Carre's novels.

When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions true.

What about a Luger ? I suppose you had a Luger. Or an explosive fountain pen ? No. We've never been very James Bond minded here. I wasn't allowed to carry a gun, and my only car was a secondhand Morris Minor.

The following morning, when I met for breakfast with the staff, we kept noisy music playing loudly on a tape recorder as a precaution against hidden microphones. It was a good thing we did: Later, we found five listening devices hidden in our rooms in the guesthouse. One staffer unscrewed a plate over the light switch in his room, discovered a bug, removed it, and took it home as a souvenir.

You think you know someone your whole life, and he turns out to be a German-gypsy interdimensional dark elf spy who can cloud men's minds. Go figure.

I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because of that.