40 Movie Quotes about Espionage (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

Updated: Aug 19, 2025

Memorable quotes about espionage, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

11 What do you do here, major? -Oh, sabotage, demolition, that line of country.

Jack Hawkins as Major Warden; William Holden as Commander Shears in The Bridge on the River Kwai

12 Apart from those present in this room, the information resides only with the CIA and British Intelligence. -Wonderful. That means by now it's all over the Kremlin.

Sean Connery as James Bond in Never Say Never Again

13 You know what a mole is? -Espionage. Double agent. -Yep. Buried in the department, left there like a time bomb, gently ticking away until he is activated by the other side. A loyal employee, a trusted friend. Selling secrets when he drinks your brandy.

Jack Kelly in The Master (1984)

14 You had me bugged, is that it? -I can read lips. -Then read them now: Get out.

Dana Delany as Andrea Beaumont in Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

15 It's a ninja. Professional soldier. Specializing in espionage and assassination. About 400 years ago.

Sho Kosugi as Cho Osaki in Revenge of the Ninja

16 Gentlemen, we're after Mr. Big, and this double-crossing fink is gonna lead us to him. To find the rat, tail the cat.

Harry Morgan as General Stilton in The Cat from Outer Space (1978)

17 I would of course tell you more, but it would be safer for you if I did not.

Peter Sellers as Inspector Jacques Clouseau in The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)

18 So it's a code-breaker. -No, it's THE code-breaker. No more secrets.

Robert Redford as Martin Bishop; River Phoenix as Carl in Sneakers (1992)

19 How could you be so goddamn stupid? Two guys show up, say they're government, and you just buy it. -They probably were government... just not ours.

David Strathairn as Whistler; Sidney Poitier as Crease in Sneakers (1992)

20 I'm going to bounce this call through nine different relay stations throughout the world and off two satellites. It'll be the hardest trace they've ever heard.

David Strathairn as Whistler in Sneakers (1992)

40 Movie Quotes about Espionage (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

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