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Quotes About Intrigue

but rather much more likely to do with the fact that his widow-to-be was engaging in sexual enmeshments with just about everything with a T-chromosome, and had been for what sounded like many years, including possibly with the Auteur's son and Madame's craven love, as a child, seeing as it sounded like the little rotter had enough malcathected issues with his mother to keep all of Vienna humming briskly for quite some time.
~ David Foster Wallace
It occurs to me that neither my aunt nor my uncle has once asked what happened to the pretty little thing that came visiting with us last time we were up, and I wonder what my mother has said to my aunt. I begin to be anxious about something I can neither locate nor define.
~ David Foster Wallace
Beyond that elfin face, the steady eyes, there was something breathing, something that was fed blood from a tiny heart beating under pointed breasts. But is was cobweb under the fingers. Cobweb in the woods that touches the face and disappears under the fingers.
~ Unknown
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
~ William Shakespeare
I long to hear the story of your life, which must captivate the ear strangely.
~ William Shakespeare
It puzzles the will.
~ William Shakespeare
What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night, So stumblest on my counsel? *Who are you? Why do you hide in the darkness and listen to my private thoughts?*
~ William Shakespeare
My lord, the queen would speak with you, and presently. HAMLET Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel? POLONIUS By th'mass, and 'tis like a camel indeed. HAMLET Methinks it is like a weasel. POLONIUS It is backed like a weasel. HAMLET Or like a whale? POLONIUS Very like a whale. HAMLET Then I will come to my mother by and by. - They fool me to the top of my bent. - I will come by and by.
~ William Shakespeare
machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our graves
~ William Shakespeare
There is magic in the web Shakespeare (Othello, Act 3, Scene 4)
~ William Shakespeare
Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness,/ Wherein the...enemy does much.
~ William Shakespeare
And with a little pin bores through his castle wall and farewell king.
~ William Shakespeare
How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags? What is 't you do?
~ William Shakespeare
To vice you to't, that you have touch'd his queen Forbiddenly.
~ William Shakespeare
But in the beaten way of friendship what make you at Elsinore?
~ William Shakespeare
Il y a quelque chose de pourri dans le royaume du Danemark.
~ William Shakespeare
Look behind you, my lord. FIRST MURDERER   Take that, and that. (Stabs him.)
~ William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
~ Unknown
Out! A mankind witch! Hence with her, out o' door: A most intelligencing bawd!
~ William Shakespeare
holes in the mayor's office.
~ William W. Johnstone
dreaming about being captured by
~ William W. Johnstone
Il vestito era quello che aveva trovato in fondo al secondo baule e che fin dall'inizio l'aveva attirata come la mela aveva attirato Eva.
~ Winston Graham
Others have risen before her, and with fewer talents, I'd swear. She has a certain elegance already. In a few years it will be hard to tell her from a woman of breeding." "And she came for nothing? I doubt it. To me she looks a dangerous woman.
~ Winston Graham
Lei chinò il capo per ascoltarlo. Jim notò che in qualunque ombra sedessero, c'era sempre una luce che cercava la pelle pallida e liscia della fronte di lei, la curva delle sue guance. Luce, c'era sempre luce per i suoi occhi.
~ Winston Graham