Riddle Quotes

“Beauty is a riddle”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Life is a maze but love is a riddle.

— Anonymous

Ballet is a riddle of means and ends.

— Gelsey Kirkland

“I'm the riddle you have yet to solve”

— Poppet

What is today but yesterday's tomorrow?

— Anonymous

You are riddle wrapped up in a mystery.

— Gaius

“Now they have a riddle. - Criminal Minds”

— Deyth Banger

Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.

— Alice Hoffman

I am a man of few words, but many riddles.

— Frank Gorshin

“In short, I am a riddle to myself; a heap of inconsistence. John Newton1 My”

— Jared C. Wilson

“As long you live it will be an unsolved riddle in your mind”

— George Orwell

Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle.

— Max Black

“It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.”

— Winston S. Churchill

There are more riddles in a stone than in a philosopher's head

— Damon Knight

Of course money buys happiness. You ever seen a homeless person skip? The answer to that riddle's no. They're not allowed.

— Daniel Tosh

True affection is a body of enigmas, mysteries and riddles, wherein two so become one that they both become two.

— Thomas Browne

I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and…

— Washington Irving

And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him…

— Khalil Gibran

Here's a riddle: When is a croquet mallet like a billy club? I'll tell you: Whenever you want it to be!

— Cheshire Cat

“Life is a riddle with no solution. The more you look for an answer, the more complicated it becomes.”

— Wolf of Shadow

Mysteries are not riddles. Mysteries are places to go with your mind. You go into mysteries.

— Frederick Lenz

I was raised in a family where no one had a serious bone in their body and every answer was a riddle,…

— James Brolin

Some people have an unconquerable love of riddles. They may have the chance of listening to plain sense, or to such wisdom…

— Isak Dinesen

The problem for cookery-bookery writers like me is to understand the extent of our readers' experience. I hope have solved that riddle…

— Julia Child

Children are the proof we've been here . . . they're where we go to when we die. They're the best thing…

— Allison Pearson

“The secrets eternal neither you know nor I And answers to the riddle neither you know nor I Behind the veil there…

— Omar Khayyám

The Phoenix riddle hath more wit By us, we two being one, are it. So to one neutral thing both sexes fit,…

— John Donne

“ "So I've got to find a mountiain that nobody's ever seen. And work out the answer to a riddle that nobody's…

— Michelle Paver

You are a mischievous one. You will cause no end of trouble. You have to travel many roads before you find the…

— Ben Okri

Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great…

— Alexander Pope

There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity…

— Anne Rice

And Harry, with the unerring skill of the Seeker, caught the wand in his free hand as Voldemort fell backward, arms splayed,…

— Anonymous

So many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were…

— Joseph Heller

“Einstein wrote the following riddle. He stated that 98% of the world could not solve it. This may not have been a…

— Peter Hollins

It seems to be very hard for people to live with riddles or to let them live, although one would think that…

— Anonymous

Thy word remaineth for ever, which word now appeareth unto us in the riddle of the clouds, and through the mirror of…

— Saint Augustine

Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements…

— Sigmund Freud

Indeed the Book of Job avowedly only answers mystery with mystery. Job is comforted with riddles; but he is comforted. Herein is…

— Anonymous

Nelson Riddle was really something. Just something else.

— Frank Sinatra Jr

What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was.

— Walter de La Mare