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Quotes About Stealth

He was quiet, and had a shadow's talent for passing unremarked,
~ Laini Taylor
I have some sneaking to do. The thought of it kicks my heartbeat sideways.
~ Laini Taylor
You snuck up on me," she said. "I guess I'm not much of a Shadowhunter, huh?" Simon shrugged. "Well, in your defense, I do move with a silent, pantherlike grace.
~ Cassandra Clare
As an ersatz opening batsman, Tavaré did not so much score runs as smuggle them out by stealth.
~ Gideon Haigh
the whole art of guerrilla warfare lies in striking the enemy where he least expects it and yet where he is most vulnerable
~ Giles Milton
St. Patrick was a gentleman Who, through strategy and stealth, Drove all the snakes from Ireland; Here's a bumper to his health. But not too many bumpers, Lest we lose ourselves, and then— Forget the good St. Patrick And see the snakes again.
~ Author unknown, c.1900
The archveult Xexamedes, digging gentian roots in Were Wood, became warm with exertion. He doffed his cloak and returned to work, but the glint of blue scales was noticed by Herark the Harbinger and the diabolist Shrue. Approaching by stealth they leapt forth to confront the creature. Then, flinging a pair of nooses about the supple neck, they held him where he could do no mischief.
~ Jack Vance
The key was stealthily leveraging and launching, then asking for forgiveness
~ Jacquie McNish
If I was a spy, I would have a watch that would cloak me in invisibility.
~ Kyle
Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad.
~ Euripides
The Navy Seals don't travel with 200 people, they wouldn't be able to execute the kind of tip-of-the-spear missions they do.
~ Harris Faulkner
I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
~ Watkin Tudor Jones
Death is a sniper
~ Nora Ephron
she slipped away unseen, like a shadow's shadow.
~ Clive Barker
Despite his size, Lincoln moved through the jungle with the easy grace of a predatory cat, finding the tiniest openings between the dense vegetation so as not to disturb anything. His feet seemed to barely brush the loamy ground. He was so stealthy that the background symphony of insects and bird cries never dropped in volume or rose in alarm.
~ Clive Cussler
no one can resist what they can't detect".
~ Victoria Price
the black, two-wheeled
~ Vince Flynn
The Goldsworth castle became particularly solitary after that turning point at dusk which resembles so much the nightfall of the mind. Stealthy
~ Vladimir Nabokov
He was the ghost you never saw coming, death breathing down your neck before you even realized you were in the crosshairs.
~ Lara Adrian
How much intelligence does it take to sneak up on a leaf?
~ Larry Niven
Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.
~ larson doug ii
One shot, one kill," Jonah said. "That's the sniper motto.
~ Laura Griffin
RULE 2: IF YOU WANT TO KEEP SOMETHING SECRET, DON'T LEAVE IT LYING AROUND.
~ Lauren Child
Under cover of darkness, they boarded San Antonio and rushed to the captain's cabin
~ Laurence Bergreen