Quotes About Intrigue

I discovered something amazing, which has caused a lot of controversy - the fountain of youth. I have to keep it a secret!

The art of love? It's knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.

Quería seguirlo en la sombra, y quería seguirlo en la

Certains physique ressemble à une question sans réponse. On sait juste qu'on ne peut pas détourner le regard. Quand il est là, on ne voit que lui.

elle était si belle...de cette beauté à mettre des points de suspension partout.

Il la regarda comme si elle était un effraction de la réalité.

Somebody should have warned the Trojans. Beware of gifts bearing Greeks.

She was a stirrer of the pot, a lover of intrigue and distress, a creature who seemed to draw oxygen from the spectacle of people at each other's throat, everybody in a state of upset and talking about her.

Syd always gets in there.

Her features were thin and her skin was pale and she was certainly not pretty. But it was an exciting face. It was terribly exciting because it radiated something that a man couldn't see with his eyes but could definitely feel in his bloodstream.

Just go along with it, he told himself. You get involved with the Night Squad, there's no telling what they might do, even though they work from city hall and are listed officially as policemen.

Nature's most cunning Trojan Horse is a woman's smile.

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.15

In 1947, Kennan wrote, "The men of the Kremlin would suddenly discover that this fluid and subtle oriental movement which they thought they held in the palm of their hand had quietly oozed away between their fingers and there was nothing left there but a ceremonial Chinese bow and a polite giggle.

the end, it is the mystery that lasts and not the explanation.

Not to mention that a crown is too high a reward ever to be given to merit alone, and will always induce the candidates to employ force, or money, or intrigue, to procure the votes of the electors: so that such an election will give no better chance for superior merit in the prince, than if the state had trusted to birth alone for determining the sovereign.

There's always room for giallo

This was Khalil's doing, and Josh's, and the three nations that could find no better way than stealing her.

Wait, Ed. Did you say she?" "You better believe it. Our hacker's a she!

Those who spy on the people end up themselves being spied on by the people.

Cautiously his foot explored, wiggled as it could, and finally felt warm flesh under the pants leg.

Despite breaking into my room, Steve seemed like a pretty decent lizard guy.

Think you it is easy to get a well-known and beautiful woman alone, away from her husband, at so public a gathering? Think you that, in the company of dozens of guests and nearly as many gossipy servants, a man can just pull such a woman aside into a private closet? It would not be easy for any ordinary man--at least I suspect it would not. I cannot say how ordinary men go about their business.

believe you have struck upon the problems of conspiracies. There are men who wish to keep you from uncovering the truth about this particular matter, but there are others who are only privately villainous and have their own little truths to hide. When you confront a conspiracy it becomes monstrous hard to distinguish between wretched villainy and ordinary, common lies.