Secret Agent Quotes

• Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Army, Secret

  "El arte de la guerra" de Sun Tzu, traducido por Chow-Hou Wee, (Capítulo XIII), 2003.

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• If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

  Thornton Wilder

  Secret, Acting, Actors

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• Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head, make their point of constructive criticism and continue on in calm forbearance. Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

  Quentin Crisp

  Thinking, People, Secret

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• Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.

  Joseph Conrad

  Luxury, Opulence, Firsts

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad: 20 Novels & 26 Short Stories (Including Memoirs, Essays & Letters in One Single Edition): Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists: Heart of Darkness, The Duel, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, The Shadow-Line & Under Western Eyes”, p.2018, e-artnow

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• He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession.

  Ian Fleming

  Secret, Details, Attention

  Ian Fleming (1953). "Casino Royale", Cape. J.

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• He who is not sage and wise, humane and just, cannot use secret agent.s. And he who is not delicate and subtle cannot get the truth out of them.

  Sun Tzu

  Wise, Secret, Use

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• This week the Obama administration warned China to remove its secret agents from the U.S. Then in the middle of Obama's announcement a plant behind him got up and walked away.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Secret, Agents, Administration

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• Of all those in the army close to the commander, none is more intimate than the secret agent.

  Sun Tzu

  Army, Secret, Agents

  "The Art of War". Book by Sun Tzu (Chapter XIII: Intelligence and Espionage), 5th century BC.

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• What is called chance is the instrument of Providence and the secret agent that counteracts what men call wisdom, and preserves order and regularity, and continuation in the whole, for ... I firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery; and therefore if we could correct the world to our fancies, and with the best intentions imaginable, probably we should only produce more misery and confusion.

  Horace Walpole

  Creer, Hombres, Orden

  Horace Walpole (1904). “The letters of Horace Walpole: fourth earl of Orford”

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• Quería ser agente secreto y astronauta, preferiblemente al mismo tiempo.

  David Byrne

  Secret, Agents, Astronaut

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• ALPHA-60: Your name is written "Ivan Johnson," but it is pronounced "Lemmy Caution," Secret Agent Zero Zero Three of the Outlands. You are a threat to the security of Alphaville. CAUTION: I refuse to become what you call "normal." ... ALPHA-60: You cannot escape. The door is locked. CAUTION: Try to stop me, pal.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Zero, Doors, Names

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• La recolección masiva significa que todas tus comunicaciones están siendo secretamente interceptadas. Las roban cuando cruzan la India y las almacenan en esos silos para que los agentes secretos puedan revisarlas cuando les convenga.

  Edward Snowden

  Comunicación, Medio, Secreto

  Fuente: www.nesta.org.uk

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• Of all rewards none [is] more liberal than those given to secret agents.

  Sun Tzu

  Secret, Agents, Rewards

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• I'd be a terrible secret agent. I can't keep a secret and I'm not sneaky.

  Katherine Heigl

  Secret, Agents, Sneaky

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• There's a big part of me that would love to be a secret agent. But if I showed up to do an investigation and interrogate someone now, they wouldn't be able to take me seriously. I've ruined that for myself.

  Gillian Anderson

  Secret, Agents, Able

  "X-Files Archive: David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson in conversation". Interview with Nick De Semlyen, www.empireonline.com. August, 2008.

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• I have dashed across continents and oceans as a fugitive and have matched my wits with the police and secret agents seeking to deprive me of one of the greatest blessings man can have-liberty.

  Jack Johnson

  Ocean, Men, Blessing

  Jack Johnson (1969). “Jack Johnson is a dandy: an autobiography”

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• The state in the matter of drugs should not, any more than in the matter of sex, act as the secret agent for the agenda of the church.

  Terence McKenna

  Sex, Drug, Secret

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• I wanted to do everything. I wanted to be a pilot. I wanted to be a secret agent. I wanted to be a fireman and a doctor, all that. So I related that through movies and stuff.

  Josh Holloway

  Doctors, Firefighter, Secret

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• Everything was fine, but Weetzie wanted a baby. “How could you want one?” My Secret Agent Lover Man said. “There are way too many babies. And diseases. And nuclear accidents. And crazy psychos. We cant have a baby,” he said.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Baby, Crazy, Men

  Francesca Lia Block (2009). “Dangerous Angels: Five Weetzie Bat Books”, p.31, Harper Collins

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• [El biógrafo] debe ser tan despiadado como un consejo de administración que descubre un desfalco, tan suspicaz como un agente secreto que viaja en el Simplon-Orient Express, tan frío como un prestamista que ve una concertina agujereada.

  Paul Murray Kendall

  Secreto, Juntas, Agentes

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• Los patos de St James's Park están tan acostumbrados a que los agentes secretos que se reúnen clandestinamente les den de comer pan que han desarrollado su propia reacción pavloviana. Ponga un pato de St James's Park en una jaula de laboratorio y muéstrele una foto de dos hombres -uno suele llevar un abrigo con cuello de piel, el otro algo sombrío con bufanda- y levantará la vista expectante.

  Neil Gaiman

  Hombres, Dos, Patos

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• The field (of filmmaking) is suddenly sexy, ... so it's deluged with these wannabes who say 'I don't want to be a secret agent, I'll be a filmmaker.' I think a lot of people are really kind of naive.

  John Landis

  Sexy, Thinking, People

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• W.Z. Foster {head of the American Communist Party}, who had no money, went to Moscow and came back and announced that he was building a great secret machine to undermine the American labor movement and turn it over to the Red International, owned by Lenin. He began publication of an expensive magazine and proclaimed 'a thousand secret agents in a thousand communities.'

  Samuel Gompers

  Party, Community, Secret

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