62 Undercover Quotes
Following is our list of the most famous undercover quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational undercover quotes. Hopefully, these undercover quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your undercover knowledge!
Famous Undercover Quotes
everyone is naked... under their clothes. — Ashley Purdy
At the height of the Cold War, they cultivated anonymity while pursuing some of the country's most covert projects. — Annie Jacobsen
Mystery is made a convenient Cover for absurdity. — John Adams
True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within. — Saul Alinsky
Be subtle! be subtle! and use your spies for every kind of business. — Sun Tzu
Hidden from the eyes, out from the heart. — Polish Proverbs
Secrets aren't secret. They're just hidden treasures, waiting to be exploited. — Stephen White
Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal. — Russell Lynes
Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers. — Plautus
Conspirators in pajamas who exchange deep kisses for passwords. — Pablo Neruda
A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government. — Bob Woodward
The donkey is hiding but his ears are sticking out in plain sight. — Moroccan Proverbs
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move. — Sun Tzu
Things aren't always what they seem You're only seeing part of me There's more than you could ever know Behind the scenes. — Francesca Battistelli
Short Undercover Quotes
- I'm a recovering undercover over-lover. — Erykah Badu
- The way I think about the practicing, it is my undercover work. — Keith Jarrett
- Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it. — Leo Tolstoy
- The lifeblood of Mercy For Animals is our undercover investigations of animal agriculture. — Nathan Runkle
- If you're undercover for two or three years, I think you lose your private life. — Baran Odar
- I always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman. — Bernie Mac
- They won't talk to you because I'm undercover. — Shaquille O'Neal
- I've always been fascinated by Baretta and Donny Brasco, and other undercover cops in movies. — Dylan McDermott
People Writing About Undercover
More Undercover Quotes
Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of Men and deny equal privileges to others; the Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom. — Benjamin Rush
While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom. — Samuel Dash
First of all I thought it was ugly, I thought it was ridiculous that undercover police guys would drive a striped tomato and I've never been a big champion of Ford. — Paul Michael Glaser
Unless we put medical freedom into the constitution the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship and force people who wish doctors and treatment of their own choice to submit to only what the dictating outfit offers. — Benjamin
Late February, and the air's so balmy snowdrops and crocuses might be fooled into early blooming. Then, the inevitable blizzard will come, blighting our harbingers of spring, and the numbed yards will go back undercover. In Florida, it's strawberry season- shortcake, waffles, berries and cream will be penciled on the coffeeshop menus. — Gail Mazur
Maybe today you could have shot anybody and get away with it. So there's many times, I could have killed people. Legally, I could have killed many people, especially working undercover. — Joe Arpaio
It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you Americans are all undercover assassins. — Mohsin Hamid
Gene Roberts, one of Malcolm's X chiefs of security, was an NYPD undercover cop. He later went on to bigger things by being a disruptive force inside of the Black Panther Party. — Manning Marable
In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet. — Roberto Bolano
The Australian sense of humor is very dry, sarcastic, and very undercover. Like if I tell any jokes in America, people just think I'm serious! So I just quit telling any jokes whatsoever. — Heath Ledger
People were encouraged to snitch. [South Africa] was a police state, so there were police everywhere. There were undercover police. There were uniformed police. The state was being surveilled the entire time. — Trevor Noah
An anarchist is like an undercover agent who plays the game of Reason in order to undercut the authority of Reason (Truth, Honesty, Justice and so on). — Paul Feyerabend
The Love Undercover series features two cops, a street rat, and a construction worker as the lead heroes. — Lori Foster
Doing 'White Collar,' quite often my character goes undercover, so therein lies the compounding of the imagination. I get to play Peter Burke and then someone else when Peter Burke goes undercover. — Tim DeKay
Don't take this next undercover assignment. Stay with me instead." Nick's eyes pierced hers, refusing to let her off that easily. "Tell me why." "Because... I love you." She exhaled. No take-backs. The words were out there forever. And it felt great. — Julie James
We need to put undercover security armed people at the curbside of the terminal with the uniform of policemen. We need to protect the terminal. We need to protect the security checkpoint, the gate, the aircraft, the perimeter. — Isaac Yeffet
Some of the bravest and the best men of all the world, certainly in law enforcement, have made their contributions while they were undercover. — Thomas Foran
Secondly, I thought it was ridiculous to have two undercover policemen driving around in a striped tomato. — Paul M. Glaser
I graduated in '94 from Yale and New York Undercover was my first gig on TV. I was really all over the place with roles, which is what I wanted to do. — Lance Reddick
I read "Women Heroes of World War I" and was absolutely astonished. When we imagine women serving in the First World War, mostly we think of Red Cross nurses, but here I was reading about women serving as front-line soldiers, women serving as war journalists . . . and women who worked undercover as spies. — Kate Quinn
Undercover investigations threw back the curtain on the systemic exploitation of animals on factory farms. The response by agribusiness interests has been to back laws that ban animal advocates from taking pictures or videos at these facilities, and ban the media from publishing any that are taken. The laws also make it a crime for animal advocates to seek employment at animal enterprises without disclosing their intentions. — Wayne Pacelle
I think Brad [Furman] crafted an amazing film [The Infiltrator]. It's so complex, it's incredibly thrilling, incredibly touching and it's what people have been trying to do for years in Hollywood, is to try to capture what it's like to be undercover, what is that duality of life? And I think that Brad really caught that. — John Leguizamo
I have my own method [of acting]. I come from, I've interrogated people; I come from an undercover background, so it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks. — Mekhi Phifer
I want to go to police academy, I want to actually go out and make a couple of arrests. I want to go undercover. — Shaquille O'Neal
This guy, when I met him he was 47 years old, he'd just come out of a divorce and he was, you know, very desirable. He had every Cosmo cover girl and undercover girl. They were just coming out of his ears. Baking cakes on his doorstep, one in the back door, one on the roof, one waiting in the basement, another in the elevator. So I know I have to keep an eye on him. — Pia Zadora
I'm in the middle of just trying to impress my nieces, who think I work for the bus company because they saw a picture of me on a bus. I did an independent movie with Mark Pellington (I Melt with You), and then tried to impress my nieces again, by starring opposite Miley Cyrus (in So Undercover). So, basically I'm just trying to get some respect from my family. — Jeremy Piven
While law-abiding Muslims are forced to hide in their homes, and animal-rights activists are labeled as terrorists for undercover filming of abusive treatment at factory farms, right-wing hate groups are free to organize, parade, arm themselves to the hilt and murder with chilling regularity. It’s time for our society to confront this very real threat. — Amy Goodman
If he'd expected to be pampered and coddled through his undercover assignments, he would have gone to work for the CIA. — Julie James
I’d like to know more about this undercover agent who posed as my daughter’s date. The ubiquitous Tall, Dark, and Smoldering.' Nick put on his best meet-the-parent smile. 'I generally prefer to go by Nick. — Julie James
Boyfriend huh? I didn't realize we had taken things to that level." "Oh, I'm sorry--this is my first undercover operation," Jordan said. "I'm a little unclear about the rules. Are we seeing other people in this fake relationship? — Julie James
Interested in some ‘undercover’ work? And to think, I was actually having a tender thought about you. Do yourself a favor, Steele…Become mute. — Sherrilyn Kenyon
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