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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.

    Wise   Secret   Use  
  • [The biographer] must be as ruthless as a board meeting smelling out embezzlement, as suspicious as a secret agent riding the Simplon-Orient Express, as cold-eyed as a pawnbroker viewing a leaky concertina.

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

    Secret   Agents   Rewards  
  • 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.

    Secret   Agents   Able  
    "X-Files Archive: David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson in conversation". Interview with Nick De Semlyen, www.empireonline.com. August, 2008.
  • Of all those in the army close to the commander, none is more intimate than the secret agent.

    Army   Secret   Agents  
    "The Art of War". Book by Sun Tzu (Chapter XIII: Intelligence and Espionage), 5th century BC.
  • He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession.

    Ian Fleming (1953). “Casino Royale”, Cape. J.
  • The ducks in St James's Park are so used to being fed bread by secret agents meeting clandestinely that they have developed their own Pavlovian reaction. Put a St James's Park duck in a laboratory cage and show it a picture of two men -- one usually wearing a coat with a fur collar, the other something sombre with a scarf -- and it'll look up expectantly.

    Men   Two   Ducks  
  • Bulk collection means all of your communications are being secretly intercepted. They are being stolen as they cross India, and they're being stored in these silos so that they can be rifled through at the convenience of secret agents, basically.

    Source: www.nesta.org.uk
  • 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.

    Sex   Drug   Secret  
  • 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.

    War   Army   Secret  
    "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu, translated by Chow-Hou Wee, (Chapter XIII), 2003.
  • 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.

  • 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.'

  • 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.

    Ocean   Men   Blessing  
    Jack Johnson (1969). “Jack Johnson is a dandy: an autobiography”
  • Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.

    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
  • I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.

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

    Secret   Acting   Actors  
  • 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.

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

    Secret   Agents   Sneaky  
  • 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.

    Sexy   Thinking   People  
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Believe   Men   Order  
    Horace Walpole (1904). “The letters of Horace Walpole: fourth earl of Orford”
  • 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.

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

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