Quotes About Covert

You can't be a real spy and have everybody in the world know who you are and what your drink is. That's just hysterically funny.

I've always loved spy stories. Who can resist?

I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.

Spy plots are hard, really hard.

I love the spy genre.

Spying has always gone on since ancient times.

Since real spies are so good, you never really know what actual spying is. But I do think spying is a lot more dangerous than we are led to believe.

The flight from shame into grandiosity lies at the heart of male covert depression.

the distinguished Harvard political scientist Samuel Huntington, in his text American Politics, observes that power must remain invisible if it is to be effective: "The architects of power in the United States must create a force that can be felt but not seen. Power remains strong when it remains in the dark; exposed to the sunlight it begins to evaporate.

Here was reading as a covert act of revolution carried out in plain sight but recognized as such only by other men with the book.

I smuggle, not snuggle.

no one can resist what they can't detect".

We're in the business of collecting secrets, not giving them away.

We're more of a bag-and-tag operation.

Your face is a secret. Hiss, Hiss.

RULE 2: IF YOU WANT TO KEEP SOMETHING SECRET, DON'T LEAVE IT LYING AROUND.

Under cover of darkness, they boarded San Antonio and rushed to the captain's cabin

She turned out to be a ship filled with secrets. In 1511, Cristóbal de Haro had backed a covert Portuguese

Under cover of his official title, Mendoza pursued his real job, that of spy.

The historical record is unequivocal. The United States is ham-handed and brutal in conceiving and executing clandestine operations, and it is simply no good at espionage; its operatives never have enough linguistic and cultural knowledge of target countries to recruit spies effectively. The CIA also appears to be one of the most easily penetrated espionage organizations on the planet. From the beginning, it has repeatedly lost its assets to double agents.

My work had been successful. I cannot disclose the nature of the operation as the agency may have other work to do on it.

They supplied me the piece and they had one guy right there to take it from me after the thing and get in one car with it and drive away. His only job was to break the piece down and destroy it.

Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.

You know, you should never catch a spy. Discover him and then control him, but never catch him. A spy causes far more trouble when he's caught. Harold Macmillan