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Quotes About Intrigue

We grant that American citizens who have millions of dollars have a right to use them to poison the public mind; but surely we don't have to grant the right of foreigners to come in and intrigue against us.
~ Upton Sinclair
Beautiful. Autumn-raw. She must be a witch of some kind
~ Velimir Khlebnikov
Nun aber weiter, mein Gast, sagte sie [Dido], berichte uns ganz von Anfang die Listen der Danaer, den Untergang der Deinen und deine Irrfahrten [...]
~ Vergil
Who has been unhooking the stars without my permission, and putting them on the table in the guise of candles?
~ Victor Hugo
There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.
~ Victor Hugo
What is fright by night is curiosity by day.
~ Victor Hugo
Many people in Paris are quite content to look on at others, and there are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.
~ Victor Hugo
There is no one for spying on people's actions like those who are not concerned in them
~ Victor Hugo
No one is more avidly curious about other people's doings than those persons whom they do not concern.
~ Victor Hugo
Qué había esta vez en la mirada de la joven? Marius no hubiera podido decirlo. No había nada y lo había todo. Fue un relámpago extraño. [...] Es una especie de ternura indecisa que se revela al azar y que espera. Es una trampa que la inocencia arma sin saberlo, donde atrapa a dos corazones sin quererlo.
~ Victor Hugo
For there are things that make the dead open their eyes in their graves.
~ Victor Hugo
Il n'y a rien de tel pour épier les actions des gens que ceux qu'elles ne regardent pas.
~ Victor Hugo
Nessuno è meglio adatto a spiare le azioni d'una persona, di coloro cui non riguardano.
~ Victor Hugo
She was smoking a cigarette and staring out the window as if she couldn't believe what she was seeing.
~ Kristin Hannah
Magic, to be its best, must be unexpected.
~ Kristin Hannah
She unlocked the door and stepped inside.
~ Kristin Hannah
Behind her, the lamp turned back on.
~ Kristin O'Donnell Tubb
he's going there at the orders of Muhammad Nahas to meet someone.
~ Kyle Mills
she was faced with not only Pavel Kedrov, the director of the SVR, but with the president of Russia himself.
~ Kyle Mills
JOHN Alton's eyes moved from the deep blue carpet to the portrait of some old white guy
~ Kyle Mills
MITCH Rapp gave a quick knock on the Oval Office door and then entered.
~ Kyle Mills
A little mystery is not such a bad thing.
~ Kyra Davis
That is for me to know and for you to dot, dot, dot.-Damon Salvatore
~ L. J. Smith
Bad magic happens" Ash Redfern
~ L.J. Smith