Quotes About Snooping

Well, perhaps you're right, Miss Blacklock, but my own diagnosis would be a severe attack of Nosey Parkeritis …

As one journeys through life," said Poirot, "one finds more and more that people are often interested in things that are none of their own business. Even more so than they are in things that could be considered as their own business.

Will you tell me exactly what it is that has upset you?" "Tell you that in two words, I can." (Here, I may say, she vastly underestimated.) "People coming snooping round here when my back's turned. Poking round. And what business of hers is it, how often the study is dusted or turned out? If you and the missus don't complain, it's nobody else's business. If I give satisfaction to you that's all that matters, I say.

I don't believe the federal government should be snooping into American citizens' cell phones without a warrant issued by a federal judge. You cannot give the federal government extraordinary powers to eavesdrop without a warrant. It's simply un-American.

The federal government has no business monitoring small cash deposits and how Americans pay their bills and has no right to snoop around in private checking accounts without a warrant.

At the most general level, the idea of privacy embraces the desire to be left alone, free to be ourselves – uninhibited and unconstrained by the prying of others. This extends beyond snooping and unsolicited publicity to intrusions upon the 'space' we need to make intimate, personal decisions without the intrusion of the state.

This was hopeless. In a novel, Adrian wouldn't just have accepted things as they were put to him. What was the point of having a situation worthy of fiction if the protagonist didn't behave as he would have done in a book? Adrian should have gone snooping, or saved up his pocket money and employed a private detective; perhaps all four of us should have gone off on a Quest to Discover the Truth. Or would that have been less like literature and too much like a kids' story?

You is getting nosier than a parker.

In the digital age, there are a million and one ways to find out what someone you fancy is doing - but remember, they can see when you're watching their Instagram stories. If you fall deep into a hole of snooping, resist flicking through the digital diaries of their exes, or at least learn to cover your tracks.

I'm sorry, I said. It's none of my business what you do. The trouble is, I'm a writer, and most writers are terrible nosey parkers.

We don't want her poking her nose into this!

I Googled it all." Dortmunder had heard of this; some other nosey parker way to mind everybody else's business.

Common politeness required that I find out; so did extreme nosiness.

I took Amy's advice and resisted the urge to start snooping around in Nurse Boobsalot's life beyond my earlier cursory and unsuccessful internet search.

Part of any acquisition process is what's loosely called 'due diligence.' Taking both technical and legal forms, it's the snooping around an acquiring company does to make sure it's actually getting what it thinks it is.

Let's see, what are those four footling freedoms we used to hear about - freedom to eat, freedom to speak, freedom to get about - what's the other? Freedom from fear, that's it. Well, who's going to have freedom from fear with those bleeding M.P.'s snooping round after him?

The first rule of snooping is to come at it sideways--when you began writing me dizzy letters about Alexander, I didn't ask if you were in love with him, I asked what his favorite animal was. And your answer told me everything I needed to know about him--how many men would admit that they loved ducks?

What are you doing here snooping around, Tory? (Medea) I didn't think I was snooping. It didn't feel like a snoop. I have snooped before and can honestly say this isn't it. (Tory)

So you're a private detective. I didn't know they existed, except in books, or else they were greasy little men snooping around hotel corridors.

I just feel like there's this illicit thrill in reading other people's mail and spying on their lives.

It's part of a writer's job to be nosy about everything.

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

NSA employs more mathematicians, buys more computer hardware, and intercepts more messages than any other organization in the world. It is the world leader when it comes to snooping.

As Trotsky didn't exactly say, you may not be interested in electronic snoops, but snoops are interested in you, whether or not you keep Coke's secret recipe on your iPhone.