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