Spies

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Spies is a surname of German origin, and may refer to:August Spies (1855–1887), anarchist

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Spies is a surname of German origin, and may refer to:

August Spies (1855–1887), anarchist

Ben Spies (born 1984), American motorcycle road racer

Claudio Spies (1925–2020), American composer

Dennis E. Spies (born 1968), American Catholic bishop

Leo Spies (1899–1965), Russian-born German composer and conductor

Liesbeth Spies (born 1966), Dutch politician

Moritz Ritter von Spies (1805–1862), Bavarian Major General and War Minister

Pierre Spies (born 1985), South African rugby player

Simon Spies (1921–1984), Danish tycoon best known for starting the charter airline Spies Rejser

Walter Spies (1895-1942), German painter

Werner Spies (born 1937), German art historian

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Notable quotes

“Because something is not what it is said to be, Ma'am, does not mean it is a fake. It may just have been wrongly attributed.”
— Alan Bennett, in A Question of Attribution; said by Anthony Blunt
“I played it slightly tongue-in-cheek because I never quite believed that James Bond was a spy because everybody knew him, they all knew what he drank. He’d walk into a bar and it would always be, 'Ah, Commander Bond, martini, shaken not stirred.’ Spies are faceless people.”
— Roger Moore in "Roger Moore interview: 'I was never very confident with girls'" by Tim Auld, The Telegraph, 23 May 2017.
“O children of Adam, let not the devil seduce you, as he expelled your parents from the garden, pulling off from them their clothing that he might show them their shame. He surely sees you, he as well as his host, from whence you see them not. Surely We have made the devils to be the friends of those who believe not.”
— Quran, Chapter 7 (Al-A’raf) : 27
“No spy, however astute, is proof against relentless interrogation. Some unforseen circumstance, some trivial lapse, is pounced upon, exploited by the interrogator, until a break is complete.”
— Lt-Col Robin Stephens in Camp 020: MI5 and the Nazi spies (2000) by the Public Record Office, p. 105
“Indeed, there may well be many who will agree that death by hanging is almost too good for a sailor who will encompass the death of thousands of his shipmates without qualm.”
— Lt-Col Robin Stephens, Camp 020: MI5 and the Nazi spies (2000) by the Public Record Office, p. 198
“To MI5, if you steam this open you are dirty buggers.”
— Anonymous letter sent to a prominent member of the Communist Party of Great Britain; quoted in "Spycatcher" (1987) by Peter Wright, p. 46

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