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

Last updated on: August 19, 2025

Memorable quotes about espionage, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources 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.

Quote from 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.

Quote from 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.

Quote from Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

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

Quote from 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.

Quote from 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.