Quotes about Intrigue
Oh, I am—it's much safer to be fond of dangerous people.
— Edith Wharton
In this interpretative light Mrs. Grancy acquired the charm which makes some women's faces like a book of which the last page is never turned. There was always something new to read in her eyes.
— Edith Wharton
At a stroke she had pricked the van der Luydens and they collapsed. He laughed, and sacrificed them.
— Edith Wharton
To step on board a steamer in a Spanish port, and three hours later to land in a country without a guide-book, is a sensation to rouse the hunger of the repletest sight-seer.
— Edith Wharton
What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.
— Edith Wharton
Those people have seen something. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know. (on flying saucers)
— Albert Einstein
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.
— Alexander Hamilton
Advertisements with long copy convey the impression that you have something important to say, whether people read the copy or not.
— David Ogilvy
Your story should open as a door to the reader, where the action has already begun and they have to run to keep up.
— Davis Bunn
I was always intrigued by the idea of bringing things together that are considered taboo or risque and bringing them together with something of high elegance and sophistication.
— Dita Von Teese
Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.
— Oscar Wilde
If I had a time machine, I'd visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turned his telescope to the heavens.
— Stephen Hawking