Intrigue Quotes · Page 4

“I can't say." Miranda mimicked a very grown-up sound with her imperious tone. "I wasn't at the morgue. I was in school.”

— Theasa Tuohy

The State always stands for swindling, intrigue, and privilege, and cannot stand for anything else.

— Ignazio Silone

“Buying loyalty can be as effective as fear when one’s rival is poorer than oneself.”

— K. Ritz

No force, no torture, no intrigue can eradicate Marxism-Leninism from the minds and hearts of men.

— Enver Hoxha

“Jabir listened but was not convinced.  “Iraq and Iran haven’t gotten along for many centuries. Why should we now?”

— Karl Braungart

I'm a big fan of being scared I like being scared. I like being involved in a film that will make audiences…

— Emma Caulfield

“The truck looked like a beater, maybe built in the 1950's, mostly rust on the outside, but a spaceship on the inside.”

— Lisa Kaniut Cobb

I arrived at school pensive, introverted, and not very sporty, so magic became a place of mystery and intrigue, an escape for…

— Drummond Money-Coutts

“He says it was tourists being careless, where I see a fiendishly clever murder attempt.” “Mr. McCarthy, you’d better explain.” “Patrick, please.…

— Susan Rowland

Well, I think that the image is a part of me. I wear the baggy pants, the hats, the whole nine. And…

— Aaliyah

I've always had an interest in the fashion industry. Fashion advertising and lifestyle branding has always been intriguing and provocative to me.…

— Ashley Purdy

Intrigue is so much more effective. I don't like to be over-prescriptive of an audience. The same with a book or with…

— Rupert Friend

Miserere is about redemption, and the triumph of our best impulses over our worst. It's also about swords, monsters, chases, ghosts, magic,…

— Alex Bledsoe

Without bureaus, committees, officials or emissaries to manufacture sentiment in his favor, without intrigue or effort on his part, Grant is the…

— Roscoe Conkling

To go out in a gondola at night is to reconstruct in one's imagination the true Venice, the Venice of the past…

— Peggy Guggenheim

The older I get, the more I like the idea of utilitarianism. I think that I'm not a trend-driven person. I really…

— Erin Wasson

Hope's Folly is a rapid-fire romp through futuristic political intrigue and high-risk passion The tug of war between decorum and passion keeps…

— Philip K. Jason

“Was it possible to love more than one person at the same time? I had always thought it just kind of a…

— D.T. Dyllin

My fave routine is The Roller Coaster. First of all it's a great way to get into a card trick, without stating…

— Steve Valentine

“Jackson couldn't bear to see Allie like this. He pulled her to him and, dropping his mouth to hers, kissed her. She…

— B.J. Daniels

In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the…

— George Washington

The personality and style of a photographer usually limits the type of subject with which he deals best. For example Cartier-Bresson is…

— Alexey Brodovitch

“George’s utterance of the nest and the trap belonged to a bigger mystery she did not yet understand. One day I will,…

— Susan Rowland

I’m loving doing Outlander. We’ve got a great cast and we’re up in the Scottish Highlands. […] It’s big budget, they’re spending…

— Graham McTavish

“They don't know what a stand up guy you are." "Even more so, now that I have four legs, right?”

— Lisa Kaniut Cobb

“It's the most beautiful thing I have ever seen." He laughed. "No, honey, that would be you.”

— B.J. Daniels

“Say what you will, dear sister, we do what we do for the promise of our youth. Yet it is always they…

— Chris Galford

The consequence of a very free commerce between the sexes, and of their living much together, will often terminate in intrigues and…

— David Hume

People frequently bore me, sometimes amuse me, most often irritate me, but rarely intrigue me.

— Jeaniene Frost

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.

— Henry Wotton

Going out there and promoting myself socially doesn't really intrigue me. I'd much rather have my work do it for me.

— Ryan Kwanten

VOID is filled with intrigue, suspense, and smoldering desire. This story will keep you turning the page until the very end.

— Aleatha Romig

Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are women who never had an intrigue; but there are scarce any who never had but one.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“You have done an unwise thing, Martise of Asher,” he said softly. “You’ve caught my interest.”

— Grace Draven

I'd love to act. I feel that it's another naked, mysterious challenge, like jazz. It kind of intrigues me in the same…

— Paula Cole

I'm fascinated with video games, though I can't really play them. It's definitely an art form that intrigues me to no end,…

— Mark Leyner

There is a fundamental difference between men and women - women need romance, men need intrigue.

— Sherry Argov

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

— Honore de Balzac

Flying would give such occasions for intrigues as people cannot meet with who have nothing but legs to carry them.

— Joseph Addison