Quotes about Intrigue

I don't believe in being interested in a subject just because it's said to be important. I believe in being caught by it somehow or other.

his thoughts revolving silently in this squirrel-cage of mystification.

I say, Parker, these are funny cases, ain't they? Every line of inquiry seems to peter out. It's awfully exciting up to a point, you know, and then nothing comes of it. It's like rivers getting lost in the sand.

The basket was opened, and a ginger head emerged resentfully.

here?" She dipped into the box and pulled

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.