Quotes About Intrigue

The members of our secret service have apparently spent so much time under the bed looking for communists that they haven't had the time to look in the bed.

Sometimes, it is not the kings and queen who make for the most fascinating history but the shadowy souls who happen to be in the right place at the right time.

I'm fascinated by evil queens. They're very alluring and repellent at the same time, and I'm into that dichotomy.

Why I was so intrigued with Red Skelton was because he was able to make you cry and laugh and the same time. That was power.

Instruments fascinate me because they're completely awkward. When I picked up a guitar for the first time I was like, "What is this?" because it's so foreign and unknown.

Something that had the quality of a dimly lit stage set just before the curtains rise on opening night. There was a rhythm to it, a beckoning, and a bittersweet tear in time.

Magic is used in espionage, all the time, for clandestine things. I've got a whole library from a gentleman who was hired by the CIA to create magic technology for the use of anti-terrorism.

Any time two characters are talking about a third, the scene is a crock of s***.

It was the first time that I came face to face with madness and feared it and was fascinated by it.

You suddenly find yourself somewhere and you wonder, how did I get in this room? That happens to me all the time, every day!

I keep vaguely wondering what Macs are like, but the ones I've seen spend too much time being friendly.

Seduced her? Every time I turned round she was up a library ladder. In the end I gave in. That reminds me—I spotted something between her legs that made me think of you.

By the time we leave, I have red lips and curled eyelashes, and I'm wearing a bright red dress. And there's a knife strapped to the inside of my knee. This all makes perfect sense.

Some of the priests from the Seminary were in the nunnery every day and night, and often several at a time.

Questions for questions. You're a man who's spent time at court.

Summer is my favorite time to read mysteries.

There's no such thing as an uninteresting life, such a thing is an impossibility. Beneath the dullest exterior, there is a drama, a comedy, a tragedy.

there was a light behind him. He got up and stretched his neck out about a minute, listening. Then he says: Who dah? He listened some more; then he come tiptoeing down and stood right between us; we could a touched him, nearly.

Well, I don't quite know about that, sir. I've often thought I would like to see a ghost if I—" "Would you?" exclaimed the young lady. "We've got one! Would you try that one? Will you?

What connection is there, President, between this uncanny creature and the disappearance of Lord Beltham, of which we were talking at dinner?

Maybe you saw her first? Caught a glimpse between the lines, between the letters, like a ghost in the mirror, a ghost in the wings?

Noli me tangere, noli me legere, noli me videre, noli me

This is not for you

dozens of hours just blinking by, lost in the twist of so many dangerous sentences.