Quotes About Intrigue

Next to entertaining or impressive talk, a thoroughgoing silence manages to intrigue most people.

Tomorrow is the mysterious, unknown guest.

A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!

Memoirs: the backstairs of history.

I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further.

I had read the book 1421—The Year China Discovered the World by Gavin Menzies and become intrigued by his perspective on the era. Menzies, of course

Atwater. "So somebody else went through their rooms?

It's Major Ketchup in the bathroom with the laser scalpel. Hmm. He sliced a delicately herbed spear of asparagus. Obviously we were meant for each other as I can interpret that as you meaning something more like Colonel Mustard in the conservatory with the candlestick.

Man. God. Roarke. An interesting and flattering lineup.

Why are you always smiling? What do you know?

Who's with her? Roarke asked, though he already knew. It was just like her. With her? Oh, ah, hmmm. Webster. Silence fell, a clatter of broken bricks. Peabody folded her hands in her pockets and prepared for the explosion to follow. I see. When Roarke simply turned back to the screen and continued, she didn't know whether to be relieved or scared to death.

Tell him I took the cat

You're a fascinating woman, Eve. Here we are, wet, naked, both of us half dead from a very memorable night, and still you watch me with very cool, very suspicious eyes. You're a suspicious character, Roarke.

He took her hand, lifted it to his lips. Nothing could have pleased him more than the quick suspicion on her face. You won't forget me, Eve. You'll think of me, perhaps not fondly, but you'll think of me. I'm in the middle of a murder investigation. You're part of it. Sure, I'll think of you. Darling, he began, and watched with amusement as his use of the endearment knitted her brow. You'll be thinking of what I can do to you.

He watched, somewhat fascinated as she swished a slice of bacon through the pool of syrup. His steely-minded cop had the appetite of a five-year-old.

People often do the incomprehensible. It's what makes them so fascinating.

Some men find the cool, disinterested, and understated attractive. Makes them think you're deep.

You won't forget me, Eve. You'll think of me, perhaps not fondly, but you'll think of me. I'm in the middle of a murder investigation. You're part of it. Sure, I'll think of you. Darling, he began, and watched with amusement as his use of the endearment knitted her brow. You'll be thinking of what I can do to you.

Roarke called here about a half an hour before you showed up." "He did?" "Real casual like. Asked about the baby, like that. I may not have seen it if I hadn't been looking, because he's just that good. But you're not the only one bleeding tonight.

Why do they stare? They're always staring. Like dolls," she said as they walked into the building. "Or sharks." "I

Golly, Peabody said under her breath, it's the great and powerful Oz.

Murder, at least, Eve understood.

What are you smiling at?" she snapped at Roarke. "I'm a man, and I'm sitting here having coffee and cookies while two beautiful women snarl at each other. Being a man I'm required to wonder—perhaps imagine—whether there will soon be physical contact. Clothing may be ripped away. Why wouldn't I smile?

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