Sphinx Quotes: top 32 famous quotes about Sphinx

Sphinx Quotes & Sayings

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offered an overland excursion to view pyramids and sphinx, — Jonquil Graham

Phrases of neatness, cosiness, and comfort can never be an answer to the sphinx's riddle. — William James

Sphinx is the riddle, not the riddler. — George R R Martin

Every human face is more enigmatic than the timeworn expression on the famous Sphinx out there in the sands of Egypt. — Dean Koontz

Yours...'til the Sphinx winks. — M. Allen

A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx. — Saul Steinberg

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche

There are many kinds of eyes. Even the sphinx has eyes - and consequently there are many kinds of 'truths,' and consequently there is no truth — Friedrich Nietzsche

I have a great interest in classical mythology and I need to make a sphinx or satyr every once in awhile to satisfy those interests. ( ... ) — Wendy Froud

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. — Oscar Wilde

Sphinxes without secrets. — Oscar Wilde

What's this?' she asked. 'Is it a sphinx?'
Yes,' he answered, 'and the sphinx is you. — Ivan Turgenev

You can't escape the puking sphinx. — Frank Zappa

And the Sphinx broke its long silence:
Don't expect too much. — Carl Sandburg

This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home. — Agnes Repplier

Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved. — Heinrich Heine

Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no end. — Charles Baudelaire

She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx. — Laini Taylor

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

His face bore an imperial nose, one belonging to the same pedigree as the one venomously blasted from the face of the Sphinx statue by Greek envy. — David B. Dacosta

It's like the riddle of the Sphinx ... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men? — Sarah Jessica Parker

The Sphinx is missing a nose. Someone shot it off in a moment of idle desecration - some say it was Mameluke Turks, others, Napoleonic soldiers. — Carl Sagan

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

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

Can't you nudge her into submission? (Taryn)
Are you kidding? As stubborn as she is? I'd fry my brain trying. (Sphinx) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

The sphinx is the riddle, not the riddler. Do you knows what that means?
No. Is it a riddle? — George R R Martin

The Sphinx must solve her own riddle. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tell me, when you are alone with him [ Max Beerbohm ] Sphinx, does he take off his face and reveal his mask? — Oscar Wilde

What sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination — Allen Ginsberg

Pity for him who one day looks uponhis inward sphinx and questions it. He is lost. — Ruben Dario

The sphinx will always have to be looked after. — Zahi Hawass

The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree. — D.H. Lawrence