Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.
—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885Quotes
I will never again command an army in America if we must carry along paid spies. I will banish myself to some foreign country first.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1863Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.
—Aleksandr Pushkin, 1837Even a paranoid can have enemies.
—Henry Kissinger, 1977There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850If you read somebody’s diary, you get what you deserve.
—David Sedaris, 2004If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
—William Hazlitt, 1823Guard more faithfully the secret which is confided to you than the money which is entrusted to your care.
—Isocrates, c. 370 BCIt was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.
—Cory Doctorow, 2013The life of spies is to know, not be known.
—George Herbert, c. 1621There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
—Francis Bacon, 1625To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968