Top 187 Intrigue Quotes & Sayings

Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I'd say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.

My Aunt Marion used to always tell me 'a touch of sun adds an air of intrigue...'

Some people hide more than others, and it does intrigue me.

I feel like my imagination was crafted by Tolkien. He seemed to tap into that childhood intrigue of secret doors and hidden worlds.

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

If you had a global calendar, then you would have less games; you create more intrigue, create supply and demand with regards to the sport, and that will heighten the intrigue with regards to the Lions. Create more mystique not only at international level but at club level as well.

In my headphones, I led a life of romance and incident and intrigue, none of which had anything to do with the world outside my Walkman.

Moscow had this incredible, intense atmosphere of intrigue and darkness and secrecy.

I really believe in keeping your canvas very basic and sort of adding the accouterments from there. I look at creating intrigue with outfits through accessories.

To me, rock music was never meant to be safe. I think there needs to be an element of intrigue, mystery, subversiveness. Your parents should hate it.

Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to Shakespeare.

If you pass something every day and it has a little character, it begins to intrigue you.

For years before my Navy enlistment, I had studied the Soviet Union and the KGB's history of political intrigue in preparation for a career in intelligence.

I realized how wonderful YA is and how I really wanted to write something that created that level of intrigue.

The why of why we are here is an intrigue for adolescents; the how is what must command the living.

I don't consider myself qualified to do a movie about international intrigue - I seldom leave the country.

A truly beautiful woman is always good and the other women, and to people in general. She rejects rivalry, intrigue and dirty tricks.

CBS announced they're canceling As The World Turns. Don't worry though, if you're addicted to the twisted plots, the intrigue, the illicit sex, you can still watch golf.

Become enraptured by the sights and sounds in intrigue of nature and beauty, come along with me and take it all in. Come here my love.

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

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

I can go to a movie theater and sit there all day. I love movies. They intrigue my brain and they relax me. I am a movie buff.

All of the 'X-Men' characters really intrigue me. Wolverine is my favorite character.

all the salt of Turkish life consists of politics and official intrigue.

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

I always keep my options open. I always say, "Make me an offer and send me the script, and if it's something that I can connect to or relate to..." The character has to intrigue me, and the project overall has to intrigue me. And if it all lines up properly, then we can get into the business side of it. But it's always about the creative first.

'Game of Thrones' really is an amazing series. Political intrigue, and then they throw in a little magic. I mean, it's got a dragon in it.

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

'Game of Thrones' is fundamentally based on a Machiavellian, almost Jacobean, idea of power and intrigue.

Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.

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

In the West we are constantly hit with music of Middle Eastern descent signifying terror, intrigue or sorrow.

In order to lead a fascinating life, one brimming with art, music, intrigue, and romance, you must surround yourself with precisely those things.

We have to be focused on not just who is in [Donald's Trump] favor and who is in his good graces and who looks right or what the palace intrigue is.

I think the power of image is in mystery - I endlessly create mysteries, by way of this dystopian message, to initiate intrigue.

Intelligence is power; it is the flame behind the spark of intrigue. Find out all the facts and stamp out the fire. Demystify.

I thought to live on an island was like living on a boat. Islands intrigue me. You can see the perimeters of your world. It's a microcosm.

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

There has to be an element of danger, or at least an element of intrigue, for a band to be interesting.

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

There are definitely scripts I start reading, where it doesn't interest me. Maybe it'll be a good movie, but the character doesn't intrigue me.

There's just an enormous vast universe of possible intrigue out there and why not pay attention to it? Because then you're not burdened with trying to find that meaning in yourself all the time.

I was like many another who starts an intrigue timidly. Once into it, I had to go on, and therefore I had to harden my sensibilities.

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 the romantic intrigue smoldering. With Hope's Folly, Linnea Sinclair builds on a secure reputation as a leading fashioner of science fiction romance. She straddles and blends these genres with a unique bravura and wit.

Politics has friendship, enmity, intrigue and even humour.

I'm always wishing for more intrigue and meaty stuff to do as an actor.

Small places intrigue me. Whenever I tried moving to a larger city, I ran back to the hills.

Ingeniously plotted and executed, Print the Legend is an epic masterpiece from Craig McDonald. Beginning to end, I was riveted by this story of character, history and intrigue.

I've been in an Agatha Christie called 'The Sittaford Mystery,' which I enjoyed, but 'The Pale Horse' has a real sense of intrigue and the jigsaw pieces fitting together.

What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?

I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.

Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure.

That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention.

It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself.

I think that scandal and intrigue and all of those sort of things that occur behind closed doors - whether it's on the Hill or in the White House - people all find intriguing.

I don't like intrigue. I'm not a man of intrigue.

I would never judge someone's intrigue with the spoils of fame, because I went through that.

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

They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera.

The U.S. has always sought to sow intrigue against Iran but has never succeeded in the face of Iran's greatness.