Quotes About Intrigue

Two of the most consequential figures of this era, Francis Drake and Queen Elizabeth, knew the expedition's true purpose:

All the while, it was rumored, she continued to have relations with the boy, Prince João

Magellan brought with him many of Portugal's most precious and sensitive secrets: information about secret expeditions

1200, Polo says, Genghis Khan sent word to Prester John to announce that he wished to marry the priest's daughter.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

And who am I? That's one secret I'll never tell...You know you love me. XOXO, Gossip Girl

You and bloody Lord Jack Redgrave!

It was so easy, she thought with some disdain, to find out about people. It was all out there, everything about them. You just had to look. You could figure out anything about a person if you just tried hard enough.

Every bedroom was empty except for the smell of gasoline and a small crackling fire set directly in the middle of each bed, as if a demented Girl Scout had been camping there.

She will figure out what happened to Lydia. She will find out who is responsible. She will find out what went wrong.

Something inside Izzy reached out to something in her and caught fire.

drawn by the spectacle of sudden death

You Hear Some Strange Noises Out Your Window You Should Probably Look And See What It Is

Woo woo, secret vampire stuff!

A man who drinks only water has a secret to hide from his fellow men

He who looks in through an open window never sees so many things as he who looks at a shut window. There is nothing more profound, more mysterious, more fertile, more gloomy, or more dazzling, than a window lighted by a candle. What we can see in the sunlight is always less interesting than what goes on behind the panes of a window. In that dark luminous hollow, life lives, life dreams, life suffers.

Here is the charming evening, the criminal's friend;It comes like an accomplice, with stealthy tread.

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

As one gets older, the story of Hansel and Gretel becomes more interesting only when told from the point of view of the witch.

Her smile is slight, like that of a little girl, and the eyes often small as if she is peering through a gun slit at a disappointing world. The hands are callused from work and rough when they touch and she is very strong. Once she grabs me from behind, puts on a choke hold and I begin to go black into unconsciousness. Then she giggles and releases her hold and light floods back into my brain and I marvel at her strength and caprice.

That night was different... there was something pulling me towards him. Something dark and sexy.

You know, you should never catch a spy. Discover him and then control him, but never catch him. A spy causes far more trouble when he's caught. Harold Macmillan

Honor among thieves, perhaps. Honor among spies, never.

I learned that spying isn't about strengths in human nature – ideological conviction, duty, loyalty to one's country. Spying is about weaknesses – the lust for money, for status, for sex. This is the guilty secret of our secret trade.' Tanya