Quotes About Intrigue

Para Falcó, palabras como patria, amor o futuro no tenían ningún sentido. Era un hombre del momento, entrenado para serlo. Un lobo en la sombra. Ávido y peligroso. Después

I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the art of war.

Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Acudiendo a la cita como la mayor parte de las mujeres acudían a la primera cita: más por curiosidad y desafío que por deseo.

El lector debe prepararse para asistir a las más siniestras escenas.

Como mucho era el que, con juicio incomprensible para los actores de la humana comedia —por no decir mojiganga de matachines—, manejaba la tramoya, haciendo abrirse malignos escotillones o girar improvisados bofetones, poniéndote unas veces en tremendos bretes y sacándote otras de las situaciones más adversas

Why don't we go to the police?" "And say what? That Milady and Rochefort, Cardinal Richelieu's agents, have stolen from us a chapter of The Three Musketeers and a book for summoning Lucifer? That the devil has fallen in love with me and been incarnated as a twenty-year-old girl who now acts as my bodyguard? What would you do if you were Inspector Maigret and I came and told you all that.

Sospechaban de él que no tenía corazón. (R. Sabatini. Scaramouche)

Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the art of war.

The defense team's headquarters, located in New Brunswick, was broken into, papers rummaged through and stolen, and the judge refused to investigate, calling the motion "frivolous.

Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.

vio un par de pies frente a sí. Calzaban

He was looking at the most exciting woman he'd ever met.

That woman is here to destroy you," she whispered.

I have a killer loose on the ranch and all I can think about is kissing you again.

I have a suspicious mind, and murder is kind of my business.

You will die in this house.

Before you leave, wouldn't you like the message Sarah's friend left for you?" She had already started for the door and now turned. "By all means." "He said he'd destroy your husband... after he killed you.

Stupid girl. Now she was going to have to die.

Hell, I've always like the man," he said now. "Until he became involved with my wife.

There was a spider…

Last night, he'd had hell getting to sleep after what he'd discovered in Ginny's jewelry box. He hated to think what the note or the hidden locket meant. A part of him still wished he'd just put both back in the jewelry box where he'd found them.

You have the most incredible eyes. I feel as if I can look into your soul." Sid shivered. "Don't look too closely.

Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.