Quotes About Intrigue

What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.

Women love only those whom they do not know!

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

I always had a soft spot for Sherlock Holmes and used to imagine helping him out.

Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.

You can't be a real spy and have everybody in the world know who you are and what your drink is. That's just hysterically funny.

What I find interesting about Captain Action is that he is more an adventurer and spy than he is a soldier.

I've always loved spy stories. Who can resist?

You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.

I invented the historical spy novel.

I wanted to be a journalist. The other thing I wanted to be was a spy.

I love 'Bond' movies, I love spy movies.

It's about these people who are inextricably together for whatever reasons, and they happen to be in the spy world. It's about relationships, and the bottom line is, that's why you care.

Spy plots are hard, really hard.

Ask yourself: if I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn't I have flown directly into Beijing? I could be living in a palace petting a phoenix by now.

Being a filmmaker is kind of like being a glorified spy.

When you really study espionage movies, or spy movies, the beginnings are really set up to have, like, an amazing bit of action, but at the moment you're watching it, you have no idea why or what it's about.

There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story.

It was awesome and liberating to play a Russian spy.

When I set out to research the story of the Culper Spy Ring, I had no idea where it would take me.

I love the spy genre.

I began writing fiction because it was the only way to tell all the intricacies of a real-life spy story.

I think I was 13 years old when my father put in my hands 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.' It was the first real adult book I ever read, and it opened a new world.

I like detective stories and spy novels, but I also like nonfiction, and of course cookbooks.