Top 27 Quotes About Busybody: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Busybody

#1. 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

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

Vilfredo Pareto

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

Sara Sheridan

#4. 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

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

Martial

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

Arthur Conan Doyle

#10. 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

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

George Takei

#12. 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

#13. 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

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

A. N. Wilson

#15. We were incredibly fortunate to get to make three [Batman films]. That's enough. Let's not get greedy. It's a torch that should be handed from one actor to another. So I enjoy looking forward to what somebody else will come up with.

Christian Bale

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

Amit Abraham

#17. I wonder why our life must quiver between beauty and guilt, consummation and sadness, desire and regret, immortality and tattered moments unknowable, truth and beautiful meaningful lies.

Jack Kerouac

#18. Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,
and has wit in it, and instruction too,
if we can but find it out.

Laurence Sterne

#19. Coward: someone who in a bad situation thinks with his feet

George S. Patton Jr.

#20. Well, Safi was calling horse shit on that. She didn't lack initiative - she was initiative.

Susan Dennard

#21. We can read a good spiritual book in search of information or in search of God. We will find only what we're looking for.

Ron Brackin

#22. 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