Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

I would wear the blue overalls of the fieldworker and often wore round, rimless glasses known as Mazzawati teaglasses. I had a car, and I wore a chauffeur's cap with my overalls. The pose of chauffeur was convenient because I could travel under the pretext of driving my master's car.

Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended in by impersonating them.

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

I would be a terrible CIA officer in real life.

I'll only move in with my husband. There's no question of a live-in relationship.

A good undercover agent stays as close to the truth as possible, as close to your own personality and your own values as possible. This is the way you stay in character - you try to be yourself.

I really wanted to be a spy. I guess it's a bit like acting, where you play a role.

Like acting, undercover detective work requires a lot of performance. There's just more pressure because it's life-or-death situations.

I was Donnie Brasco, the Mafia guy, in character. But in my head, I was a special agent. I never lost sight of who I was or why I was there.

For 50 percent of Americans marriage is forever, for the rest of us there is another adventure.

The Enemy, who wears her mother's usual face and confidential tone, has access; doubtless stares into her writing case and listens on the phone.

The one thing you can bet is that spying is never over. Spying is like the wiring in this building: It's just a question of who takes it over and switches on the lights. It will go on and on and on.

And there's no "I love you" message because Steve Ovett has married the girl

Lure him out. Send in a 'customer' with a message from me needing to meet him. I'm not the kind of person he can ignore-well, that he used to not-never mind. Once he's out, we can get him to a place we choose." I nodded. "I can do that." "No," said Dimitri. "You can't." "Why not?" I asked, wondering if he thought it was too dangerous for me. "Because they'll know you're a dhampir the instant they see you. They'll probably smell it first. No Strigoi would have a dhampir working for him-only humans." There was an uncomfortable silence in the car. "No!" said Sydney. "I am not doing that!

They won't talk to you because I'm undercover.

Nobody knows I'm Elvis, nobody knows this is me. After all of my tries, I've got the perfect disguise.

What she needs,' Tom said aloud 'is a husband.' Agnes said crisply, 'Well, she can't have mine.

It's a lot easier to convince uninformed people than it is to convince politicians.

Why, I can smile and murder whiles I smile, And cry 'content' to that which grieves my heart, And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face for all occasions

I use innocence in my demeanor like a Venus flytrap.

Women want you to deceive them: they force you to, and if you resist, they blame you.

Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.

I don't like dating or just living with a woman. I like to create a relationship, a marriage. And almost all of my marriages have involved children, so I'm really a family man as well.

The candid camera is the greatest liar in the photographic family.... It is anarchic, naïve, and superficial.

Marriage is not a priority for me. I'm not saying I'll never do it. It's just not where we are as a family . . . I'll be at home with my man, having a perfectly loving time, and I'll see all these comments on some site about how wrong I am for not being married. I don't feel less loved or less loving because I'm not married.