Quotes About Intrigue

Do you have any idea who you've been dealing with? This is big-time! Interstate! Federal! You're not in a precinct, are you? This goes way beyond you! This goes deep! We've been on to this guy for a long time, Shaka. The Virginia Mafia! Nobody fucks with them! We've got him in a room down the hall--this guy gave up his own sister! You're lucky you got out alive!

Comte de Saint-Germain

Maddened by Mystery.

When they answered the bell on that wild winter night. There was no one expected - and no one in sight.

Boy, are you fuckin' those worms again?

Pero la desearías si no te rehuyera? Ésa es la pregunta que cabe hacerse sobre una mujer.»

Ninety per cent of the drugs were for him and ten per cent for Natasha, a woman who remained an impenetrable mystery to him during the six months they lived together. The only thing he felt certain about was that she irritated him; but then, who didn't?

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science.

Those people have seen something. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know. (on flying saucers)

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

He didn't know about Clara Rockmore and her Town Hall debut. He had no idea she was still performing—just recently before a crowd of 4,500 in Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium. And he didn't know the inventor was alive and living in Russia after fleeing New York as a Soviet spy a decade earlier. He just knew he had to build this thing.

Chapter 8 "America's No. 1 Vomic" (Winchell)

En aquellos días descubrí por qué hay tantas solteronas resolviendo misterios: es lo más entretenido cuando no follas.

What a dull world if we knew all about geese!

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.

Es cierto, no hay planes celestiales ni infernales. Pero cuando uno está enamorado busca explicar el rechazo en términos de intriga. El amor es fatal para el pensamiento. La gente empieza a creer en gualichos, en maldiciones, en conexiones mágicas. Siga un consejo: no se enamore.

There are three things in the world that are unclear to me, and a fourth one I do not comprehend: the path of an eagle in the sky, a snake on a rock, a ship at sea, and the path of a man to the heart of a woman.

So who is she? No wait, let me guess. Skin of the finest porcelain. Hair of the softest silk. A voice like birdsong, a smile like sunshine, and a mouth that would sate your brightest and darkest wishes. "You've met her?" "Oh yes, my friend. We all know her. We've all pursued her. Some of us have even been lucky enough to have her. We've been drunk on her sin, become fools of her favor. she might have borne a different face each time, but her name was always the same. Trouble.

killed Mason and four of his men along the way. Salome had barely contained the aftermath. She knew Wells would keep coming. But did he know who she was? That Duberman was behind her? She'd spoken to

She's using me. And I like it.

And then she leaned back her head with the faintest smile and, tapping her chin, asked, Are you in love with him, this mystery composer? How can I be? I asked in return. I don't even know him. Almost every opera is about this, she said, her smile growing. Love before first sight.

Men of factious tempers, of local prejudices, or of sinister designs, may, by intrigue, by corruption, or by other means, first obtain the suffrages, and then betray the interests, of the people.

I inquired for Mrs. Reynolds and was shewn up stairs, at the head of which she met me and conducted me into a bed room. I took the bill out of my pocket and gave it to her. Some conversation ensued from which it was quickly apparent that other than pecuniary consolation would be acceptable.