Perhaps if the year was 1447 instead of 1947 I might have hoodwinked my gentle nature by administering her some classical poison from a hollow agate, some tender philter of death. But in our middle-class nosy era it would not have come off the way it used to in the brocaded palaces of the past. Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer.
Quotes about nosy (8 Quotes)
Yes, you are nosy. You're a dreadfully nosy, horribly bossy, appallingly clean old woman. Control yourself. You're victimizing us all.
It's kind of like a crazy comedy. And funny from the standpoint that there are so many different characters, like the nosy neighbors, they just come in and take over. And some of their lines are just so funny.
Most people don't realize their neighbors are as nosy as they are.
The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping.
I just listen to what people say, absorb it and then regurgitate it later. I'm very nosy, I think.
The two women positively enjoy punishing the portly knight for his audacity as they deal with an insanely jealous husband, a rebellious daughter, a warlike French doctor, a nosy Welch clergyman and all the other denizens of their Windsor community.
The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.