Quotes About Enigma

It's always interesting to play a character that obviously has a secret.

It is clear to me now that the universe in its truculence doesn't permit itself to be that well known.

She thrusts hurriedly into your hand an extremely hot buttered roll, flashes out a tiny pair of scissors, snips off the second button of your overcoat, meaningly ejaculates the one word, parallelogram! and swiftly flies down a cross street, looking back fearfully over her shoulder. That

Los frutos del amor son intangibles. Este es uno de sus enigmas.

What we essentially want is to draw something unknown to us in all its shadowiness, not something we know in all its illumination.

He is dangerous, he is beautiful, I could drown in his understanding.

Computers were a kind of magery in themselves, or might as well be - to people who didn't understand them, they were every bit as inscrutable.

The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.

When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it. When I leave town now I never tell my people where I am going. If I did, I would lose all my pleasure. It is a silly habit, I daresay, but somehow it seems to bring a great deal of romance into one's life.

It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world.

The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.

There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

MRS ALLONBY Is she such a mystery? LORD ILLINGWORTH She is more than a mystery - she is a mood. MRS ALLONBY Moods don't last. LORD ILLINGWORTH It is their chief charm.

She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it. When I leave town now I never tell my people where I am going. If I did, I would lose all my pleasure. It is a silly habit, I dare say, but somehow it seems to bring a great deal of romance into one's life.

not many follicles among the oracles.

And enigmatic smile is worth ten pages of dialog.

Old woods and deep. At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned and these were like them.

In the deep glens where they lived, all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.

Curious the small and lesser fates that join to lead a man to this. The thousand brawls and stoven jaws, the clubbings and the broken bottles and the little knives that come from nowhere. For him perhaps it all was done in silence, or how would it sound, the shot that fired the bullet that lay already in his brain? These small enigmas of time and space and death.

Vuestro máximo deseo es que os cuente algún misterio. El misterio es que no hay ningún misterio.

That old she-painter, she never left a track one. She wadn't no common kind of painter.

Who would steal them? No idea. They didnt leave a note.