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Quotes About Intrigue

We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
~ Anthony Trollope
A man who grows that much hair,' critics were fond of saying, 'must have a lot to hide.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Everyone loved Steve Jobs and the idea of Steve Jobs. Like a lot of people, I loved a man I never knew.
~ Ashton Kutcher
Abraham Lincoln was a melancholy man, so he had a dark side that appeals to horror fans.
~ Bill Oberst Jr.
How do you 'accidentally' kill a noble man in his own mansion?" "With a knife in the chest. Or, rather, a pair of knives in the chest.
~ Brandon Sanderson
You know Beyoncé, man. She's very quiet about how she does things. She doesn't like to let everybody know what she's about to do.
~ Bryce Wilson
The young man who appeared at the mouth of the alley was pale in the lamplight—paler even than he usually was, which was quite pale indeed.
~ Cassandra Clare
Slowly, without taking his eyes from hers, the man in the black coat knelt before her. "I have come for the girl in the window," he said, and his eyes filled with tears
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Man, I hated not being able to figure someone out. And from the slightly uncertain look he gave me as we all went to class, I suspected he felt the same way.
~ Claire LaZebnik
We like to keep the sexual tension underplayed, especially between the Smoking Man and me. Once we thought he was my father . . . it got more interesting.
~ David Duchovny
But like the legless man, I'm unaccountably fascinated by those who can dance.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
That man has no shadow.
~ Erin Morgenstern
It's easy to convince men to love you, Puck. All you have to do is be a mountain they have to climb or a poem they don't understand.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
Mystery keeps man alive; it opens his ears, his eyes, and his mind! Find a mystery and try to solve it!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
When a man says, "Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?" there is no answer to be made.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
How strange a thing is the heart of man!
~ Murasaki Shikibu
Well, for me as a heterosexual man, the woman is still the mystery of life.
~ Nicolas Provost
Seminaked men!" Jacky trilled. "With swords," Kat purred. "It is a romance novel!
~ P. C. Cast
Woman is the unfathomable, incalculable mystery, the problem we men can never hope to solve.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
"Can't sleep with a dead man in my closet." "You killed someone?" asked Ben with interest.
~ Patricia Briggs
We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
~ Pliny the Elder
I meddled in things that man must leave alone
~ R. C. Sherriff