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Quotes About Intrigue

The one thing I don't understand is when people make comments who are clearly not fans of mine. I think, why are you here? Why are you wasting your time? It's fascinating.
~ Madonna Ciccone
I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
~ Vincent Cassel
I can't imagine what possessed you to propose to me." "Well that will give you something to puzzle over any time you can't sleep.
~ Georgette Heyer
It's like everyone I have dinner with, I'm having an affair with. Who was it I met the other day? Minnie Driver! She seems charming, but that's the only time I've met her.
~ Mick Jagger
Another door swung open, and another guard appeared, this time with Gabrielle, who wore a black catsuit and rappelling harness.
~ Ally Carter
Secrets stolen from deep inside....the drum beats out of time
~ Cyndi Lauper
The hours of the morning between breakfast and lunch were the time which the inhabitants of Riseholme chiefly devoted to spying on each other.
~ E.F. Benson
I like when you look at me like you can't figure me out. You're considering getting to know me, but you're not sure I'm worth your time.
~ Kate Angell
I know I can do it," Todd Downey said, helping himself to another ear of corn from the steaming bowl. "I'm sure that in time her death will be a mystery, even to me.
~ Stephen King
Something stinks here, and this time, it's not just him.
~ Triple H
I didn't have time. I was too busy breaking up Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman's marriage. (on rumours he was responsible for Julia Roberts and Benjamin Bratt's break-up)
~ George Clooney
Art as a whole is a riddle. Another way of putting this is to say that art expresses something while at the same time hiding it.
~ Theodor Adorno
Death, he thought. This whole clue hunt's been about death.
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
The note only held two words:
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
For the love of all that is holy, just give me a straight-up, stand-up sword fight! I hate court intrigue and all the closet-hiding, eavesdropping, secret-liaisoning, lying, and manipulating, who's-watching-who-watching-who bastards that bow and scrape and simper as they slip arsenic into your claret. You can't tell your friends from your enemies from one day to the next. —Stephano De Guichen
~ Margaret Weis
The Nightlord wasn't attempting to illicit information from Palin.
~ Margaret Weis
A prolonged silence ensues. The reason for the silence is our growing interest one for the other. No one is aware of it, no one yet; no one? am I quite sure?
~ Marguerite Duras
Suddenly, out of nowhere, some random old guy grabs me on the arm and starts dragging me into a side corridor. "You must come with me," he says in an urgent voice.
~ Mari Mancusi
For all I know, the guy is Dracula.
~ Mari Mancusi
Kobieta musi mie? w sobie to coÅ›, mówiÅ', swojÄ… tajemnicÄ™, wtedy dopiero jest warta zachodu.
~ Maria Nurowska
Curiosity is the beginning and end of secrets.
~ Mario Bencastro
no estoy en policiales —dijo Santiago—.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Faceva sempre in modo di farmi sapere, o meglio, indovinare, che c'erano uno o più segreti nella sua vita di tutti i giorni, una dimensione della sua esistenza cui io non avevo accesso e dalla quale poteva scatenarsi in qualsiasi momento un terremoto che avrebbe mandato all'aria la nostra convivenza.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
There was something about her playing... a knowledge of darkness in the most extreme form.
~ Marisha Pessl