Bennett Cerf Quotes

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

It's horrible dating with Mama Mai! She is nosy. When I was a kid she would be the first one eavesdropping on my phone calls: 'Hello? Who you call for? Huh?'

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.

You is getting nosier than a parker.

People in England are so bloody nosy.

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

A busybody's work is never done.

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

Mind Your Business

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

I think everyone needs to mind their own business.

One should not poke their nose into the private life of other persons.

I’d rather have the thieves than the neighbors - the thieves don't impose. Thieves just want your things, neighbors want your time.

It is personal vanity of the most flagrant type which intrudes itself, unasked, into other people's affairs. There are few of us who do not feel capable of ordering the daily lives of others, down to the most minute detail.

I can't go anywhere without being bugged by somebody. I'd love to just hike out down the street, or drop in a restaurant, or wander in the park, or take my kids somewhere without collecting a trail of people. But I can't.

He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.

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

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.

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.

A critic is someone who meddles with something that is none of his business.

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

Once you assume your right to interfere in other people's problems they become in some ways more of a worry than your own, for with your own you can at least do what you think best, but other people always show such a persistent tendency to do the wrong thing.

Tabloids invoke freedom of speech, but they're not interested in that, they're just interested in who's shagging whom, who's got drunk. And if you take that pretend, faux moral standpoint, you end up with people in public life being completely boring. Like they've had their genitals removed.