Cole Porter Quotes

The incomprehensible pleases us, the inexplicable is our friend.

There are some things that defy explanation- kind of like. . . you know, you.

We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle

Your trouble is, you keep trying to unscrew the unscrutable.

Some things were beyond understanding.

I have no idea,' he tells her, and there is such a spark in his eye when he says it, she can tell having no idea is exactly the way he wants it.

When things are baffling they usually don't unbaffle themselves.There's just, you know, a certain amount of baffling stuff that always, like, really baffles you, and I've found that it's best to accept bafflement whenever it comes along, and then move on.

Now for me, you're the irreplaceable one: I've never see you up so close before, and I do not understand you at all. You say sometimes I act like I don't see you? I don't even know where to look! Living with you around is like is like living with a permanent dazzle. The fact that you even like me, or look at me, or brush by me, or hug me, or hold me, is so surprising that after it's over I have to go back through it a dozen times in my head to savor it and try and figure out what it was like because I was too busy being astounded while it was happening.

You do things and do things and nobody really has a clue.

By clarity I don't mean that we're always in kind of a simple area where everything is clear and comforting and understood. Clarity is certainly a way toward disorientation because if you don't start out - if the reader isn't grounded, if the reader is disoriented in the beginning of the poem, then the reader can't be led astray or disoriented later.

But mark, madam, we live amongst riddles and mysteries--the most obvious things, which come in our way, have dark sides, which thequickest sight cannot penetrate into; and even the clearest and most exalted understandings amongst us find ourselves puzzled and at a loss in almost every cranny of nature's works.

I can't imagine what possessed you to propose to me." "Well that will give you something to puzzle over any time you can't sleep.

If you ever got me, you wouldn't have a clue what to do with me.

But I still couldn't figure out what it all meant. The more I found out, the less I understood.

One mysterious person looking at another mysterious person equals what? Another mystery.

I'm a walking, talking enigma.

I like very confused people. The more confused, the more fun for me.

Confusion is not an ignoble condition

I want it clearly understood that I'm totally confused.

September could see it. She did not know what is was she saw. That is the disadvantage of being a heroine, rather than a narrator. She knew only that a red light glowed and went dark, glowed and went dark.

The more you play it the less you know about it.

I'm here to confuse you. Confusion is my right and left hook.

His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part.

I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.

What's going on?" Newt asked, looking back and forth between Thomas and Aris. "Why're you guys looking at each other like you just fell in love?