Secret Service Agents

Famous quotes containing the words secret, service and/or agents:

“If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be—not understood, but divined.”
—Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)

“The gods’ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

“Modern man’s capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity’s capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include many of the agents we require for its reconstruction.”
—George F. Will (b. 1941)