Quotes About Intrigue

There's a full moon tonight, so everything is Peary and shadowy but visible. It gives me the feeling of something stolen, something I wasn't supposed to be able to see. Some treasure not normally mine.

All things are strange which are worth knowing.

It's Latin, which is an excellent language for mischief-making, which is why governments are so fond of it.

Somewhere on Earth is an insect that excretes a golden antibacterial ooze that also does a splendid job sweetening your tea; a terribly picturesque tree whose bark will fix your malaria right up; and a large four-legged, two-horned mammal whose reproductive system dispenses ice cream, brie, and buttercream frosting.

She walks into my life legs first, a long drink of water in the desert of my thirties. Her shoes are red; her eyes are green. She's an Italian flag in occupied territory, and I fall for her like Paris. She mixes my metaphors like a martini and serves up my heart tartare. They all do. Every time. They have to. It's that kind of story.

All the rest of the nonsense a story requires is just a long seduction of the ending.

where there's a labyrinth, there's a minotaur, and vice versa! I can't imagine a decent maze that would be caught dead without a minotaur.

oh, come on, you must know 'Leave It Black.' I see a black door and I'm extremely satisfied with how it looks?

Up to no good may mean up to something interesting!

Can you imagine there being so many people that you could just murder one and nobody would know who did it right away?

Iago shrugged his furry shoulders. "As you like. Saves me the work of picking the lock with my incisor.

I did not see the appeal of a wife. We had never had one before. She would not be half as interesting as our buffalo.

I think this is very strange --" "All things are strange which are worth knowing (...).

her footsteps on the stairs. I was expecting

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One did not need to penetrate David's secret counsels or insinuate a man in his bodyguard. All one needed was a pair of years and access to the royal precincts. Just to eavesdrop upon his singing was to develop an accurate idea of his state of mind.

Was she hitting on him? He

La pluralità dei dettagli dell'esistenza diventa un mistero nel momento in cui la curiosità ne allarga i confini naturali.

That's what I was doing the day you children found me in your grandfather's room." Mr.

Melissa arrived punctually a few minutes after eight. She was on foot and her attire was an incitement to crime.

Watch for when he goes," she whispered. "Then come over to my bedroom. I'll be waiting, darling. Run!

Prior to the arrival of both the president and prime minister, listening devices and directional microphones had been concealed in the principal rooms of both the Villa Vorontsov and the Livadia Palace. Members of the British Military Mission in Moscow—all too familiar with eavesdropping—recommended discussing sensitive issues in the bathrooms, with the taps gushing water to drown out their conversations.

La meilleure façon de commencer est de dire : Balthus est un peintre dont on ne sait rien. Et maintenant, regardons les peintures. (p. 91)

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