Intrigue Quotes · Page 3

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

— Ignazio Silone

I can't compete for roles that require me to be Caucasian or African American, even if those characters really connect with me…

— Mena Massoud

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

“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

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

— B.J. Daniels

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

— K. Ritz

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

— Karl Braungart

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

— Enver Hoxha

When I say that a good picture has surprise quality or shock appeal, I do not mean that it is a loud…

— Alexey Brodovitch

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

If one sees the personality not as an apparatus that is essentially constructed by the time childhood is over, but as always…

— Erik Erikson

I certainly had this fascination with monsters and vampires as did Tim and whatever this darkness, this mystery, this intrigue. And then,…

— Johnny Depp

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

“He reached for one of her fidgeting hands, grasping hold. Her eyes met his then faltered, lowered and grazed over his damaged…

— Lotchie Burton

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

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

“Ashe was typical of that strata of mankind which conducts its human relationships according to a principle of challenge and response. Where…

— John le Carré

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

“The king killed his brother, who was actually king, so that he could be king. Then the dead king’s wife and baby…

— Sage Blackwood

The artist brain is the sensory brain: sight and sound, smell and taste, touch. These are the elements of magic, and magic…

— Julia Cameron

Dastardly devious, cleverly conceived, and just a whole lot of fun to read, DEATH PERCEPTION is Lee Allen Howard on fire and…

— Michael Arnzen

Sometimes something intrigues me about particular sounds, how they work together, and I think "Okay, I've found something here; I'm going to…

— Brian Eno

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

— David Hume

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

— Chris Galford

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

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

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

— Honore de Balzac

Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul.

— Robert Genn

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

— Joseph Addison

“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

“The phrasing annoyed Sage. As long as she was pretty and in a good mood, her husband would love her? People needed…

— Erin Beaty

“Mari's original plan to have the Queen play coy with the King was, she now realized, woefully inadequate—a milkmaid's game, played against…

— Dawn Patitucci

A hack writer who would have been considered fourth rate in Europe, who tried out a few of the old proven 'sure-fire'…

— William Faulkner