Quotes About Intrigue

For reasons I have yet to define, Signor Arpelli stood out from his colleagues. The curled brim of his hat, perhaps. A certain mingling of gravity and levity- I thought the masks of Janus had merged in his eyes.

Thus the headstrong German Shepherd dog, Fritz, and Moritz, the Barbaryy ape, innocently and gallantly defending his mate, plunge Greece into a political void.

Didn't the secret police know the exact aroma and chemical composition of every subversive fart in Greece?

Nobody should ever try to second-guess history; the facts are fantastic enough.

Her eyes went again to the man in black. He had removed his hat when he seated himself and she noticed that his hair was black and curly. He was a lean, powerfully built man, probably larger than he looked while seated. Her eyes trailed again to the bandage. "You…you've hurt yourself!" she exclaimed. "Your shoulder!" Embarrassed

Murder? It is not easily done, amigo.

now– The door suddenly was opened! 

her by night, somebody gets killed, see?

In a world of many mysteries there are a few doors left slightly ajar for us to see. He who passes one of those doors may deny man knowledge precious to us.

What became of her?" "Her?" Buffalo furrowed his brow. "Let's see, now. She was the one

Mugworm Griblick

Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to look mysterious and important. Meg observed it, but did not troubled herself to make inquiries, for she had learned that the best way to manage Jo was by the law of contraries, so she felt sure of being told everything if she did not ask.

John Brooke is acting dreadfully, and Meg likes it!

Mac looked up with the oddest of all his odd expressions

Oh, that is the surprise. It's so lovely, I pity you because you don't know it…

There's mischief going on, and I insist upon knowing what it is.

Because, what? You won't tell? Never! Well, I have a bad trick

Out came Meg, with gray horse-hair hanging about her face, a red and black robe, a staff, and cabalistic signs upon her cloak.

Since he was seldom seen, people often wondered about his whereabouts.

What makes him so problematic—and why he continues to inspire such ambivalent reactions—is that his good side was every bit as good as his bad side was bad.

Hamilton did not think Burr would be a harmless, lackadaisical president. "He is sanguine enough to hope everything, daring enough to attempt everything, wicked enough to scruple nothing," Hamilton told Gouverneur Morris. From his legal practice, Hamilton knew that Burr had exorbitant debts and might be susceptible to bribes from foreign governments. He briefed Federalists about the scandals involving Burr and the Holland Company and the gross trickery behind the Manhattan Company.

The guys can't take their eyes off Colleen... one of them... probably sees her just like I do, she's the gatekeeper to another world.

Did you know if you look deep, deep, deep into a cat's eyes, there's an alter with three candles ?

You aroused his . . . that surely was very indiscreet.