Busybody's Quotes

#1. A busybody's work is never done.

A. N. Wilson

#2. As the years passed the ugly boy grew up into an ugly youth, and before he knew it, into an ugly middle-aged man.

Haruki Murakami

#3. Though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#4. What people do behind closed doors is certainly not my concern unless I'm there with them.

Dolly Parton

#5. Usually, so far as improvement in the people's economic conditions is concerned, humanitarians simply play the role of the busybody.

Vilfredo Pareto

#6. I bless you with a curse to always remain busy

Amit Abraham

#7. That's the unwritten rule in hip-hop. If I get on a record with you, I want to smash you. That's it. Every MC knows that. If I'm on a track with you, I want to be the best on the track. That's just how it is in hip-hop.

Ja Rule

#8. Why, that means you're just a ... busybody. You could be anyone. You could be a journalist.'

Sara Sheridan

#9. There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great many people, we do not think he can be an exceptionally good man.

Bertrand Russell

#10. As soon as I made it about being healthy and shifted my focus away from the scale, the weight started to come off. I keep track of my body by how my jeans fit - and how I feel.

Alison Sweeney

#11. You can't expect to make all this money and not go through problems. You can't expect God to give you everything you want without taking something away.

French Montana

#12. Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.

Hippocrates

#13. There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.

Martial

#14. We are living in the era of the busybody. In ancient Greece, if a person wanted guidance, it involved a long, arduous expensive journey to consult the oracle at Delphi. Today, if you want guidance, all you have to do is unplug your ears.

Margo Kaufman

#15. When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around.

Mark Twain

#16. Neither a gossip or a busybody, Mother Bo took a keen interest in the aches and pains of the entire village, and she was indefatigable.

Hock G. Tjoa

#17. If I had a talent I could claim, it would be as a finder of trouble. Which is undoubtedly what I'd find by sticking my nose where it had no right to be. But would I let a thought of trouble stop me? Not a snowflake's chance in hell.

Keri Arthur

#18. We don't want a busybody government - a boss - that butts into our lives every chance it gets to tell us how to work, how to play, where to live and on and on.

Sonny Perdue

#19. So you can put that in your pipe and smoke it Mr. Busybody Holmes.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#20. Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has no duty to the masses or society, and ethical or moral pronouncements added by busybody critics are of no concern to the writer.

Gao Xingjian

#21. I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career.

George Takei

#22. I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1.

Neil Innes

#23. Apparently, lesbians and gay men who have no desire "to become queer" have failed at a task that is obligatory for them, whether or not they are aware of it. Halperin, like Foucault, in short, is yet another busybody who has an agenda for other people's lives.

Bruce Bawer

#24. I know you, you scoundrel! I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." My friend smiled. "Holmes, the busybody!" His smile broadened. "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" Holmes chuckled heartily.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#25. Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not wordy nor a busybody.

Marcus Aurelius