Quotes About Intrigue

tarnished keys, gilded keys, keys

Once while spying on my neighbors I solved for x.

Her brother-in-law Ninian Edwards said bluntly, "She could make a bishop forget his prayers.

I shift the dozen roses I've bought along with a copy of a spy novel—Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews— to shake her hand.

The Lady Rycca of Wolscroft and you would be well advised to take your eyes from her. She is betrothed to a Norse lord who comes soon to claim her.

More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.

your eyes will be drawn to one small odd thing among all the thousands of others—the thing that calls to you, and suddenly, out of everything else your eyes are taking in and disregarding, they'll focus on this one spot where something doesn't make sense, or maybe it spells danger, or it just reminds you of a time and place different from this one. And you can't look away.

Drama: an addiction of mine, maybe. To look at my history, at least, you would have had to consider that possibility.)

His badness thrilled and amazed me.

Cuando se le ocurría acostarse conmigo y la borrachera la obligaba a conversar, era como poseer a decenas de mujeres y saber de ellas.

la contradictoria mezcla de repugnancia y fascinación

Se tomaron todos los cunchos que había en la casa», dijo Mallarino.

Dottora Dicanti, puede usted creer en las historias sobre la Santa Alianza, porque existe. Existe desde hace cuatrocientos años, y es la mano izquierda del Vaticano para aquellos asuntos que ni el mismo Papa debe conocer. —

Dime, chico... ¿Has bailado con el demonio a la pálida luz de la luna? JACK NAPIER

I suppose I'm intrigued with the bad traits of society, because I'm a part of society, and the bad traits pose the dangerous questions for our future.

Feature for feature, he wasn't exactly movie-star handsome. Yet he appealed to her in ways she wasn't used to.

Suddenly, the window swung open and a man's silhouette appeared against a flash of lightning. The candle was blown out by the wind, leaving the room in semidarkness. Elizabeth blinked, not certain if she had really seen the man or not. "Is someone there?" "Eliz-a-beth." A shadow detached itself from the darkness and moved toward her. Her heartbeat quickened. "Cain?" "I told you I would come for you, Eliz-a-beth.

For my part, I think that the mystery is always greatest where there is the most - emptiness.

Judith Krantz

Tell me," he said, smiling, "Would you really have danced with the duke?" She relaxed, the danger past. "Yes. But he was my second choice. You, sir, didn't seem to have much interest in me." "Ah. There you are very wrong." His smile faltered, and then he began to lean forward, as if he would kiss her again. But the door opened, and a loud group of young men pushed into the courtyard, filling the garden with glimmering light and sound as they laughed amongst themselves.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

Bezv?t?í m? zneklid?ovalo, kdo takhle ml?í, n?co chystá.

I'll say one thing for you, there's never a dull moment when you're around, wot with everyone who meets you wantin' to kill you. - Billy

On creating a false identity for Pheobe- "A widow," Ava insisted. "How did her husband die?" Greer asked. "I hardly know," Ava said with a shrug as she rocked Jonathan in her arms. "How do men typically die? A fall from a horse or some such thing." "I scarcely believe scores of men are falling to their deaths from their saddles," Greer said drily.