Quotes About Enigma

Lucy, you're as transparent as a pane of glass, and there's not a speck of guile to be seen in you. Yet in a way you're a mystery to me.

Or perhaps it's the wickedness in him that she can't resist. There are such women.

Diane St. John had once said he looked as if he would speak in poetry, should he ever deign to speak at all.

I was a golden witch, who had no past at all.

The world was made of mysteries, and I was only another riddle among the millions.

Come, make us into magic.

explored." "It is the glory of God to conceal a matter," says the book

Every man is a mystery to himself. And then we die, unsolved.

I needed a new mystery.

Beware of the waiting room. He closed the door at once, as if he had rehearsed that moment. I opened it quickly, and leaned out to call after him, The what? He turned, but only to give a sharp wave, the Trafalgar Square crowd swallowed him up. I couldn't get the smile on his face out of my mind, it secreted an omission. Something he'd saved up, a mysterious last word. Waiting room. Waiting room. Waiting room. It went round in my head all that evening.

the Germans, complacently sure it was uncrackable, were careless in its use.

he woke up dead.

Don't play dumb. Something's up. A new case

This was the first puzzle and none of the pieces fit.

The extraordinary thing was, there was not a mark on their bodies.

Some unexplainable things are real.

All this had happened since Ben's arrival from... where? She still didn't know. Unbelievable.

But there are times you pull something out of the water for which there's no accounting, the only remnant of a story whose contours are a mystery.

George himself is no mystery, but the mystery George is immense. It's watching him uncover it all that's so damn interesting.

It is impossible for any Sherlock Holmes story not to have at least one marvelous

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Every experience has its element of magic.

The most beautiful experience in the world is the experience of the mysterious.

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.