Quotes about Intrigue
I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.
— Oscar Wilde
Moss was almost certainly dead. That left the police. Or some agent of the Matacumbe Petroleum Group. Who must think that he thought that they thought that he thought they were very dumb. He thought about that.
— Cormac McCarthy
What is the knocking? What is the knocking at the door in the night? It is somebody who wants to do us harm. No, no, it is the three strange angels. Admit them, admit them.
— DH Lawrence
Nobody knocks here, and the unexpected sounds ominous.
— DH Lawrence
There was something northern about him that magnetised her.
— DH Lawrence
Are you the new person drawn toward me?
— Walt Whitman
In the end, only something endowed with mystery is worthy of love. It is impossible to love something stripped of mystery; at best it would be a thing one uses as one sees fit.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
When you are not on your pedestal you are not interesting.
— Oscar Wilde
Describe us as a sex, was her challenge. Sphinxes without secrets.
— Oscar Wilde
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
— Mark Twain
He was looking at her from behind the smiling that wasn't smiling but was something you were not supposed to see beyond.
— William Faulkner
He had a face like a nutcracker; a scrawny man of no particular age, with merry secretive eyes.
— William Faulkner