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Letter "S" » secret agents
«[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.»
Author: Paul Murray Kendall
| Keywords:
biographer, biographers, board, board meeting, concertina, embezzlement, leaky, orient, oriented, pawnbroker, pawnbrokers, riding, ruthless, secret agent, secret agents, viewing
«The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules.»
Author: Joan Didion
(Journalist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
agent, drove, free agent, Free agents, in case, mobility, nineteenth, nineteenth century, Pacific, privacy, restaurant, sandwich, secret agent, secret agents, the Pacific
«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»
Author: Quentin Crisp
(Author)
| About:
Euphemisms,
Youth
| Keywords:
agents, airily, barely, bluntly, euphemism, euphemisms, nod, pass by, secret agent, secret agents, stinking, verbiage
«If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.»
«The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
agents, emperors, ministers, present day, secret agent, secret agents, secret societies, secret society, unscrupulous, upset
«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.»
Author: Sun Tzu
(Author, General)
| Keywords:
agent, agents, army, be intimate, close to, commander, commanders, confidential, intimate, intimates, intimate with, intimating, in operation, liberal, operations, relating, rewards, secret agent, secret agents, The Agent
«Secret study, silent thought is, after all, the mightiest agent in human affairs. What a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward thought.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
| Keywords:
completion, mightiest, secret agent, secret agents
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