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Quotes About Intrigue

My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak.
~ Adelbert von Chamisso
Moscow had this incredible, intense atmosphere of intrigue and darkness and secrecy.
~ Alan Furst
The most important thing is that you don't bore the audience.
~ Jacqueline Fernandez
I mostly gave away what I had from the James Bond movie.
~ Ursula Andress
I like a role where some of the character's motivations are confusing or at least interesting.
~ Florence Pugh
The old detective story that's got a really complicated motive doesn't apply to mine.
~ Ruth Rendell
They were like men in a zoo; he gazed at them, looking for all the little particular markings of the town, the fine mapping upon their limbs and faces of their own little cosmos.
~ Thomas Wolfe
Amazing,' Dave Jensen kept saying. 'A new wrinkle. I never seen it before.' Mitchell Sanders took out his yo-yo. 'Well, that's Nam.' he said. 'Garden of Evil. Over here, man, every sin's real fresh and original.
~ Tim O'Brien
Duffy nodded civilly, reflecting, though, that the surest way to get Aurelianus to talk about chickens was to ask him about cheese.
~ Tim Powers
And it dies never knowing where the attack came from.
~ Timothy Zahn
Maybe that's why he was so quick to finger Ackbar in the first place
~ Timothy Zahn
Of that time, there is still much we do not know.
~ Tom Bissell
She didn't strike me as a crossword in ink kind of girl
~ Tom Clancy
The Americans are always investigating one another, it was their national sport.
~ Tom Clancy
The first rumors about Zenith came from the Czechoslovakians.
~ Tom Clancy
you can follow along.
~ Tom Clancy
midnight kill. "Next, we have to see
~ Tom Clancy
So, we never even knew that they were here, but the militia captain with our team did, and he kind of blurted it out. His exact words were, 'My God, the Politburo's in there!
~ Tom Clancy
Mark Charon, who had just arrived.
~ Tom Clancy
This wasn't a mere can of worms. It was a can of poisonous snakes that Ryan had spilled over Murray's desk.
~ Tom Clancy
también. ¿Me oye? Volaron el túnel…
~ Tom Clancy
From Russia with Love
~ Tom Clancy
Quién es Samad?
~ Tom Clancy
And later, of course, she got too busy. She asks Royce if he heard anything from Grace, ever. "No. No. Why should I?" "I just thought." "No." "I thought you might have looked her up later on." "Not a good idea." She has disappointed him. Prying. Trying to get at some spot of live regret right under the ribs. A woman.
~ Tom Perrotta