Oscar Wilde Quotes

Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!

You need mystery. You actually do. I think that's what foreign women, French women in particular, are good at. There's still a sense that you need to keep some of the unknown because that's where the soul resides, or something.

It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.

There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle.

She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.

You are afraid of me, because I talk like a sphinx.

Things keep their secrets.

Gravity Falls' is a riddle wrapped in an enigma tucked in a mystery deep-fried in a conundrum slathered in hickory-smoked puzzle sauce.

I like to keep some things secret. Otherwise, there's no mystique about you.

I almost think there's a mystique to not knowing everything about me.

I like the idea of having a little bit of a mystery about me.

Secrets are the kind of adventure she needs. Secrets are safe, and they do much to make you different. On the inside where it counts.

To me it is enough to wonder at the secrets

Keep your secrets Keep your silence It is a better gift than truth

Life is the finest secret. So long as that remains, we must all whisper.

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

The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won't tell.

Only mystery allows us to live, only mystery.

I shall be as secret as the grave.

Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.

There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.

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

The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine.

Great ladies ... are like the best sauces -- it is better not to know how they are made.

Secrets interest us all, I think.