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Quotes About Clandestine

He did not understand all he had heard, but from his clandestine glimpse into the privacy of these two, with all the world that his short experience could conceive of at their feet, he had gathered that life for everybody was a struggle, sometimes magnificent from a distance, but always difficult and surprisingly simple and a little sad.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The only thing I ever withheld from the KGB were the names of two agents whom I personally had known and handled and had a particular feeling for.
~ Aldrich Ames
Gerçekten de ilginç ne varsa hep gizli kapakl? yaÅŸan?yor. İnsanlar?n gerçek tarihleri hakk?nda hiçbir ÅŸey bilinmiyor..
~ Louis Ferdinand Céline
There's mischief going on, and I insist upon knowing what it is.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Like the Reynolds pamphlet, these clandestine messages signal a further deterioration in Hamilton's judgment once he no longer worked under Washington's wise auspices and was left purely to his own devices.
~ Ron Chernow
A good thief goes unseen. A truly great one merely goes unnoticed. She
~ Joe Abercrombie
A maioria vinha se preparando para missões clandestinas pós-apocalípticas desde que tinha idade suficiente para segurar um controle de Xbox.
~ Joe Hill
Most secret societies—at least those you can read about in books or on the Internet—are collegiate. Or adult... They are like fraternities, only they don't have houses or public identities. In colleges, their members are usually local, not national, but the adult ones tend to be more serious and on a larger scale. We don't actually know what they do. Because they're secret.
~ E. Lockhart
Nonsense of this type is more difficult to combat than a solid lie. It hides in rubbish heaps and moves when no one is looking.
~ E.M. Forster
'Day Men' provides a magnificent challenge in that it deals with a secret society within a secret society.
~ Brian Stelfreeze
11 Clowns Undercover
~ Franklin W. Dixon
Recusa ser minha mulher? - Essa seria a minha felicidade; mas quisera sê-lo com honra. - Que mais honra? - Um casamento clandestino não nos ficaria bem. Se ambos fôssemos pobres ou ricos, sim; mas a desigualdade das nossas fortunas... - Oh! não faças essa consideração. - É essencial.
~ Machado de Assis
T]he whole character of secret Intelligence ... is that nothing should ever be done simply if there are devious ways of doing it.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge
Forse, pinsò Montalbano, abbisognava fari un gran monumento, come il Vittoriano a Roma dedicato al Milite Ignoto, in memoria dei lavoratori clandestini ignoti morti sul lavoro per un tozzo di pane.
~ Andrea Camilleri
I am not to know the contents of his Letter. The hearts of us women, when we are urged to give way to a clandestine and unequal address, or when inclined to favour such a one, are apt, and are pleaded with, to rise against the notions of bargain and sale. Smithfield bargains, you Londoners call them:
~ Samuel Richardson
He should creep on by clandestine acts, and not contend in open battle according to the practice of those who excel in courage; he should secretly try many schemes, and thus stealthily extend his empire.
~ John Calvin
but not by habits of war nor by open magnanimity, but he shall grow great by fraudulent and clandestine arts; because he was on the one hand most impious, and on the other, of a servile disposition, as we have formerly said.
~ John Calvin
I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight.
~ Edward Snowden
The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.
~ George Bernard Shaw
I excelled in finding and acquiring secret information that I obtained in brush passes, dead drops, or in meetings in dusty alleys of third world capitals.
~ Gina Haspel
That meant she had to find a way to slip out of the townhouse again without being caught in her
~ Ruth Ann Nordin
When it comes to hiding porn, every man is a CIA agent.
~ S. A. Sachs
Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
~ Angela Davis
The only time I met R.B. clandestinely was in the parish church, where we were married before two witnesses — it was the first and only time. I looked, he says, more dead than alive, and can well believe it, for I all but fainted on the way, and had to stop for sal volatile at a chemist's shop.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning