Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

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

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

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

The hours of the morning between breakfast and lunch were the time which the inhabitants of Riseholme chiefly devoted to spying on each other.

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.

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

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

A busybody's work is never done.

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.

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.'

There ought not to be anything in the whole universe that man can't poke his nose into-that's the way we're built and I assume that there's some reason for that.

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

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.

I'm incurably nosey - so naturally I'm a great reader.

With prurient absorption and only minimal risk, we can pretend to be the subject of the lead article on the front page of the Style section of our local newspaper for as long as it takes to finish our morning coffee.

Writers are nosy people; we are endlessly curious: we ask questions when we shouldn't - we peek around corners when we are least expected.

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

What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.

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?'

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

Everyone is a bit nosey. It's like if you walk down the street and someone has their blinds open, you look in.

I grew a reputation for always asking questions and being nosy.

I'm probably, like, the nosiest person you'll ever meet. Not in a rude way, but I like to be in the know.

I always thought if I wasn't an actor, I might make quite a good detective - mainly because I'm nosey.