A. N. Wilson Quotes

I like poking my nose into other people's lives.

It's what I do best - pry into people's business and mind their business. I can't help myself. I can't even go through the grocery line of the grocery store without talking to people and then giving them my opinion.

There are plenty of people, in Avonlea and out of it, who can attend closely to their neighbours' business by dint of neglecting their own; but Mrs. Rachel Lynde was one of those capable creatures who can manage their own concerns and those of other folks into the bargain.

I have an ex that's just all up in my business every day.

a meddling, officious, incompetent little puppy.

For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

I have no interest in anybody's life that way so it defeats me why people go to that length to pry.

I don't know why other people are concerned about other people's lives that much.

Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.

It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.

A man that's fond precociously of stirring , :;:; Must be a spoon.

I can be a bit nosey. I like a bit of gossip.

I've never been involved in something where people cared about my personal life and the gossip of it!

Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole world, is my responsibility.

We will not allow anyone to poke their snotty nose into our affairs

People should mind their own business. This particularly applies to those who are inquisitive, and those who jump to conclusions.

If you're like me and nosy, you're always eavesdropping on other people's conversations.

I'm quite nosy. Somebody will be reading a book on a train, and I'll go: 'How is it? Is it any good?' and they'll be like, 'Yeah, now let me read it.'

You is getting nosier than a parker.

Few things in Avonlea ever escaped Mrs. Lynde. It was only that morning Anne had said, "If you went to your own room at midnight, locked the door, pulled down the blind, and sneezed, Mrs. Lynde would ask you the next day how your cold was!

I ask a lot because I'm very curious - especially about ex-girlfriends. I'm pretty good at getting the answers, too.

If everybody minded their own business... the world would go round a deal faster than it does.

Censor: A self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business.

I get to be the nosiest friend or acquaintance that anyone has because it's - my job is to ask you about your dating life all the time.