Quotes About Intrigue

Frog End, reduced to a single pub and no shop, might appear to be the sort of boring place where nothing much happened but, as he had discovered, this was far from the case. Beneath the placid surface swirled a positive maelstrom of intrigue, scandal and misbehaviour, with a surveillance network to rival the Russian KGB in its ruthless efficiency...

The very mystery of him excited her curiosity like a door that had neither lock nor key.

You're a pretty person, Scarlett," he said. "Especially when you are meditating devilment.

Scarlett, I'm a bad influence on you and if you have any sense you will send me packing - if you can. I'm very hard to get rid of. But I'm bad for you.

Eavesdroppers often hear highly entertaining and instructive things

People envision [looking inside the brain] as being very difficult. You had to take a spaceship, shrink it down, inject it into the bloodstream.

I never really did sports growing up. Maybe that's why they intrigue me. The technology that goes into that clothing is steps ahead, so it's always been something I look towards.

Pull back the curtain and jump down the rabbit hole.

I engage in subtle stalking. That's entirely different and perfectly socially acceptable.

He's a bootlegger....One time he killed a man who found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil.

I'm a let you finish, but the French Revolution had the best severed heads of ALL TIME.

It was his very carelessness that she had initially found so attractive, as though to snag his attention for even a moment was a sign

A dark imagination is, perhaps, more appealing before you know anything about darkness.

Little bundle of contradictions

Alles is niet zo erg dan ontdekt te worden.

Did he know she could barely think, let alone speak, for awareness of proximity of his fingers? Of course he knew. He was a rake. This is what he did.

Some mysteries are simply irresistible," she said. "They have components that alter a life.

When did this fiend strike last? Ah . . . The last report was from the Dominican Republic. That was, let me see, two nights ago. Dominican Republic! Why in the world would he go there? Exactly what I would like to know.

It was as if I had only just been able to see colours and shapes for the first time. I was so enthralled with the buttons on Lestat's black coat that I looked at nothing else for a long time.

I see. said the vampire thoughtfully.

What have you seen with your eyes? asked the old woman. What have you seen that you knew should not be there?

An alien calm crept slowly over me. It was dark, full of bitterness and growing fascination.

I found her more alluring than any woman I'd known in mortal life.

Something happens to your senses when you look on Louis. Behold Louis...