Quotes for All
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
Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much. Euripides
Busy people are never busybodies. Ethel Mumford
Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?’ —That’s what I’d like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities. Emile M. Cioran
The goat’s business is none of the sheep’s concern. Edna Ferber
You know how some people are – they always feel they have to do things for other people’s good, no matter what happens to the other people in the process! Frances Parkinson Keyes
Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion. Florida Scott-Maxwell
People who seek political power are, with exceptions too rare to matter, never to be trusted; at best, such people are vain and officious busybodies. People who actually achieve political power are to be trusted even less than those who seek it without success; winning elections requires a measure of deceitfulness and Machiavellian immorality that … Read more
The weather is nature’s disruptor of human plans and busybodies. Of all the things on earth, nature’s disruption is what we know we can depend on, as it is essentially uncontrolled by men. Criss Jami
People should always mind their own business. More trouble is caused in this world by interference than any other single thing. Charlotte Lamb