Quotes About Enigma

Want on legs," Gwladus said when she saw him. "Though for what, I don't know.

We would have lost more without our mysterious helper who has melted away like mist.

The whole thing has the smell of the uncanny.

She heard the secret, perhaps a secret no one wholly mortal should hear.

How did Begu always make simple things seem so slippery?

The girl could tell he did not like this man whose business was the uncanny.

Everything that makes man feel that mystery envelops him makes him more intelligent.

Justin Michaels! He's sort of adorable. And hunky. And mysterious, in a hunky, adorable kind of way.

Enigma code 48 and bombe machine 56, 57–9

On first speaking to the man, his ingratiating smile, his flaxen hair, and his blue eyes would lead one to say, "What a pleasant, good-tempered fellow he seems!" yet during the next moment or two one would feel inclined to say nothing at all, and, during the third moment, only to say, "The devil alone knows what he is!

Perhaps I am the only person who, asked whether she were a witch or not, could truthfully say, "I do not know. I do know some very strange things have happened to me, or through me." Lady Alice Rowhedge

Britain had an asset that became increasingly important as the war went on, the existence of which was only disclosed thirty years after the war ended (Churchill did not mention it in his history of the war). With the help of Polish intelligence, the British had acquired the basic German military coding machine, called Enigma.

Monsters, monsters! But there are no monsters! What you call monsters are superior forms, or forms beyond your understanding.

You are horror and beauty in rare combination.

Science is the topography of ignorance.

There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.

What a mystery, what an absurdity if not true, and if true what a wonder!

A stranger full of secrets.

Conheçais vós, vossa própria pusilanimidade, vossos mistérios, vossa perversidade, vossa ardileza e vossa feitiçaria.

I wonder what he sees, a chapter from a book I have never read.

like the free-blowing wind and the matchless sun, love couldn't be adequately defined or explained!

Wizards are a secretive lot.

But that was the trouble with ancient artifacts - no one really knew what they did.

Smith's eyes traced