Sphinx Quotes

34 quotes by 26 authors

You are afraid of me, because I talk like a sphinx. — Charlotte Bronte
She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx. — Laini Taylor
I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement that… — Charles Baudelaire
Courage~ What makes the flag on the mast to wave? What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk?… — L. Frank Baum
Creamy and leggy, with long azure hair and the eyes of a silent-movie star, she moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx. — Laini Taylor
Virginia," Billy said urgently. "Don't do this." "Shut up,Billy." "Think of the people in San Francisco." "I don't know any of the people in San… — Michael Scott
For I am I: ergo, the truth of myself; my own sphinx, conflict, chaos, vortexâ€”asymmetric to all rhythms, oblique to all paths. I am the… — Austin Osman Spare
Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved. — Heinrich Heine
The pyramid once passed there was still a short way to go before we confronted the Sphinx, in the middle of what our contemporaries have… — Pierre Loti
A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx. — Saul Steinberg
The sphinx will always have to be looked after. — Zahi Hawass
READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in dialect and… — Ambrose Bierce
When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's… — Zahi Hawass
Pimps see the wings on the underground king. Who's also Klingon To infinity and beyond. Something really stinks, but I Sphinx like Leon, Or lion… — Lupe Fiasco

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