Quotes About Meddlesome

The outsider is necessarily ignorant, usually irrelevant and often meddlesome, because he is trying to navigate the ship from dry land.

You is getting nosier than a parker.

You is getting nosier than a parker.

Oh, but you're wrong! It's my duty as a priest to pry into people's lives. I agree it's a meddlesome trade, but it's no more useless than the business of a merchant, clothier, carpenter or samurai. It exists because it is needed.

Why, that means you're just a … busybody. You could be anyone. You could be a journalist.'

I guess you're the same in all places, shoving your advice in when nobody asks for it.

I had always detested the meddlesome alarmist, who veils ignorance under noisiness, and for ever wails his chant of lugubrious pessimism.

The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.

Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.

Prince Hippolyte, under pretense of helping, was in everyone's way.

On the whole, however, art is free, shameless, irresponsible, and, as I said: the movement is intense, almost feverish, like, it seems to me, a snakeskin full of ants. The snake itself has long been dead, eaten, deprived of its poison, but the skin moves, filled with meddlesome life.

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.

Why did you butt in when it was none of your business?

The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.