Darling: So you see, Blackadder, Field Marshal Haig is most anxious to eliminate all these German spies.
Melchett: Filthy Hun weasels fighting their dirty underhand war!
Darling: And, fortunately, one of our spies...
Melchett: Splendid fellows, brave heroes, risking life and limb for Blighty!
Melchett: Filthy Hun weasels fighting their dirty underhand war!
Darling: And, fortunately, one of our spies...
Melchett: Splendid fellows, brave heroes, risking life and limb for Blighty!
Bobbie: [after seeing Cotyar expertly handle a gun] You served?
Cotyar: SIGINT, back in the day.
Bobbie: [voice dripping with disdain] Ah. Military "Intelligence".
Cotyar: Yeah, my IQ tested too high to be a marine.
Bobbie: And your morals tested low enough to be a spy.
Cotyar: SIGINT, back in the day.
Bobbie: [voice dripping with disdain] Ah. Military "Intelligence".
Cotyar: Yeah, my IQ tested too high to be a marine.
Bobbie: And your morals tested low enough to be a spy.
I've killed plenty of spies. Bunch of dime-a-dozen backstabbing scumbags.
—The Scout, from the Team Fortress 2 video "Meet the Spy"
"People blame the military for the wars that we are asked to fight, but I think it is your kind, Major, that will be the death of us all."
— Commander Toreth, Star Trek: The Next Generation ("Face of the Enemy")
"What the hell do you think spies are!? Moral philosophers measuring everything they do against the word of God or Karl Marx? They're not! They're just a bunch of seedy, squalid bastards like me: little men, drunkards, queers, hen-pecked husbands, civil servants playing cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten little lives. Do you think they sit like monks in a cell, balancing right against wrong?"
— Alec Leamas, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
