The Unlikely Spy Quotes

“Vicary had decided he wanted to contribute. He wanted to do something instead of watching the world through his well-guarded window.”
― Daniel Silva, The Unlikely Spy

“They sat in an awkward, embarrassed silence for a moment, the way Englishmen are apt to do after sharing private thoughts.”
― Daniel Silva, The Unlikely Spy

“wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”
― Daniel Silva, The Unlikely Spy

“Life isn’t a dress rehearsal.”
― Daniel Silva, The Unlikely Spy

“Remember, my Führer, a lie is the truth, only backward. Hold the lie up to a mirror, and the truth will be staring back at you in the glass.” “You have a plan.”
― Daniel Silva, The Unlikely Spy

“Sun-tzu wrote that all warfare is based on deception. He preached that every battle is won or lost before it’s ever fought.”
― Daniel Silva, The Unlikely Spy

“Führer, a lie is the truth, only backward.”
― Daniel Silva, The Unlikely Spy

“the gentle melancholia that afflicts country people when the warm weather is ending.”
― Daniel Silva, The Unlikely Spy

“After more than five years, some agents might be tempted to become complacent. Catherine would never become complacent. It was one of the reasons she survived when others had been arrested and hanged.”
― Daniel Silva, The Unlikely Spy

“Why, we're simply going to create an army of a million men. Conjure it up, I'm afraid, completely out of thin air.”
― Daniel Silva, The Unlikely Spy

“Perhaps the Allies will engage in some trickery. A diversionary landing, perhaps as you yourself have suggested, my Fuhrer. But the real strike will come here. At Calais.”
― Daniel Silva, The Unlikely Spy