Riddle Quotes
184 Riddle quotes by 146 unique authors
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It wasn’t like in the storybooks. No witches lurked at crossroads disguised as crones, waiting to reward travelers who shared their bread. Genies didn’t burst…
— Laini Taylor
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Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.
— Alice Hoffman
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Richard was a riddle with no answer, and I was tired of playing a game I couldn't win.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?
— Miguel de Cervantes
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All of life’s riddles are answered in the movies.
— Steve Martin
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He kissed back, all the pages spread out around us like riddles waiting to be solved. Let them wait. Let my genes unravel, my hinges…
— Lauren DeStefano
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There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world…
— Anne Rice
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You know what, the jacket’s like the car.†"“Is this a riddle?†" , "“No,†Peabody said as Eve swiped the master.","“It’s an", "ordinary thing—well,…
— Nora Roberts
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An admiral without ships, a hand without fingers, in service of a king without a throne. Is this a knight who comes before us, or…
— George R. R. Martin
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We can't save the past or solve the riddle of love. But to me, it's worth trying.
— Diane Keaton
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Indeed the Book of Job avowedly only answers mystery with mystery. Job is comforted with riddles; but he is comforted. Herein is indeed a type,…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles
— Mark Twain
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Solving the following riddle will reveal the awful secret behind the universe, assuming you do not go utterly mad in the attempt. If you already…
— David Wong
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You train yourself in the art of being mysterious to everyone. My dear friend! What if there were no one, who cared about guessing your…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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I know what you are known as . . . but to me, you will always be Tom Riddle. It is one of the irritating…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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You are a mischievous one. You will cause no end of trouble. You have to travel many roads before you find the river of your…
— Ben Okri
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Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved.
— Heinrich Heine
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And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your…
— Khalil Gibran
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here, there, and everywhere"-an opinionated riddle.
— Mary Downing Hahn
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My grandmother told me that her father used to ask her a riddle: What must you break apart in order to bring a family close…
— Jodi Picoult
Who Wrote These Riddle Quotes
146 authors contributed a total of 184 Riddle Quotes, led by these top contributors: