Quotes About Intrigue

Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you.

This is old news, and stale," growled the Shavepate. "Your mother said the same of your father's kisses," Daario replied.

The king dies, Ned Stark thought, and the Hand is buried.

Things can change quickly in the game of thrones.

her son upon his throne. When the lion falls the lesser beasts move in: the jackals and the

Six of the young cupbearers were playing some child's game as he entered, sitting in a circle on the floor as they took turns spinning a dagger. When it wobbled to a stop they cut a lock of hair off whichever of them the blade was pointing at.

Sure, kid. Look, there's a very old saying in my family: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is another wizard fucking with you.

I am the ghost in Harrenhal.

She spoke with rats and spiders, it was said, and all the vermin of King's Landing came to her by night to tell tales of any fool rash enough to speak against the king.

Whisper a word in the wrong ear and before you knew it you'd be short a head.

going?" he asked, stepping toward her. For reply she only laughed, the most unpleasant laugh he had ever heard from her, and, stepping through, closed the door. Before he could reach it she had bolted it. He went immediately into the hall, but all the other doors to their suite were also locked.

There is more story in a minor character like Boba Fett than there is in all the clutter of various vampires in the Twilight franchise.

By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal.

I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office." (Washington DC, 12 May, 2008)

When Perry sat down n front of the judge to be arraigned, Truman nudged Nelle. "Look, his feet don't touch the floor!" Nelle said nothing, but thought, " Oh, oh! This is the beginning of a great love affair." In fact, their relationship was more complicated than a love affair: each looked at the other and saw, or thought he saw, the man he might have been.

cautioning Roger upon pain of death not to utter a sound, we made our way cautiously into the villa and slipped like shadows into my bedroom.

hung like a trembling curtain of black lace

He glanced about him to make sure we weren't overheard, leaned forward, and whispered, 'He collects stamps.' The family looked bewildered. 'You mean he's a philatelist?' said Larry at length. 'No, no, Master Larrys,' said Spiro. 'He's not one of them. He's a married man and he's gots two childrens.

When Ali Agca, a Turk, shot Pope John Paul II in 1981, both the target and the would-be killer were well within Vatican territory," wrote George Armstrong, the respected Rome correspondent for London's Guardian. "The Vatican was happy to have him arrested, tried and sentenced in Italy, and under Italian law, and his life sentence will be at the expense of the Italian taxpayer. The Vatican becomes another country only when it chooses to be.

I take him to McDonald's just to watch him eat and see the numbers change.

Her figure is harder to ignore than a ringing telephone.

Interest speaks all sorts of tongues, and plays all sorts of parts, even that of disinterestedness.

I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.

Judge Crater - please call your office.