Quotes about Intrigue
Now comes the mystery.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.
— Isabel Allende
Hi. I'm on the run from the FBI, Interpol, and a Las Vegas criminal gang," I announced bluntly, to avoid any misunderstandings. "Congratulations," he said.
— Isabel Allende
People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages.
— Jerry B. Jenkins
I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office." (Washington DC, 12 May, 2008)
— George W. Bush
I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office." (Washington DC, 12 May, 2008)
— George W. Bush
It reminds me of a remark Lucien [Carr] once made to me: He said You never seem to give yourself away completely, but of course dark-haired people are so mysterious.
— Jack Kerouac
From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.
— John Updike
Bonapartist democrat. Grey shades of a quiet mouse colour.
— Victor Hugo
The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure.
— Milan Kundera
The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.
— Charles Dickens
Why does Alexander the Great never tell us about the exact location of his tomb, Fermat about his Last Theorem, John Wilkes Booth about the Lincoln assassination conspiracy, Hermann Göring about the Reichstag fire? Why don't Sophocles, Democritus, and Aristarchus dictate their lost books?
— Carl Sagan