“She knew that hearing bad things about yourself is one of the punishments for eavesdropping.” — Jeanne Birdsall Copy Share Image
If you're like me and nosy, you're always eavesdropping on other people's conversations. — James Lapine Copy Share Image
Nothing good was ever learned from eavesdropping, so mind your business and let others mind theirs. — Maryrose Wood Copy Share Image
Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
As a child I loved to be in the kitchen with my mum and aunties, eavesdropping on the adults. — Monica Galetti Copy Share Image
I shouldn't have eavesdropped, but sometimes, that's the only way to find out the truth. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
A writer's occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
On his own okay, Bush has authorized eavesdropping on as many as a thousand people over the past three years, with some… — Margaret Carlson Copy Share Image
There is an art to eavesdropping, but I think to some extent we are all guilty of picking up those little odds… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
“Oh, that? I never thought it was eavesdropping, Aslan. Wasn't it magic?" "Spying on people by magic is the same as spying… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Eavesdropping’s sort of thrilling ’cause you learn what people really think, but eavesdropping makes you miserable for exactly the same reason.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Eavesdropping, Mother?' Ramses inquired. 'It is a shameful habit, but cursed useful,' I said, quoting something he had once said, and was… — Elizabeth Peters Copy Share Image
I spend my time sitting in train stations, parks, parking lots, cafes, just looking at people - eavesdropping, basically. I'm vulnerable to… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
“I especially like eavesdropping on women my age. Besides being titillating, it also helps me gauge where I'm at in comparison.” — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
“She had become really quite expert, she thought, at listening as though she didn't listen, at sitting in other people's lives just… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Some say Edward Snowden is a hero and a patriot. Others say he's a fool and a traitor. The evidence is mounting… — Arthur L. Herman Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language,… — Hilma Wolitzer Copy Share Image
So yes, this is a show about an adolescent girl, her friends, and various vampires. Vampires writing in diaries, vampires attending high… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
Everyone in the world is impacted by the United States' Big Brother attitude toward the world. We need countries to say no… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
At least you're learning a thing or two about wine. Good to hear you're making such an effort to improve yourself." "Does… — Julie James Copy Share Image
[Peter Pan] has never broken his terrible habit of eavesdropping. So, maybe that wasn't the rustle of pages you heard while this… — Geraldine McCaughrean Copy Share Image
There is no point in trying to remember your dreams ... There is only the unspeakable joy of eavesdropping on your spirit,… — Marsha Norman Copy Share Image
“Eavesdropping is secretly listening to the private conversation of others without their consent, as defined by Black's Law Dictionary.[1] This is commonly… — Black's Law Dictionary Copy Share Image
Drug offenses ... may be regarded as the prototypes of non-victim crimes today. The private nature of the sale and use of… — John Kaplan Copy Share Image
There was some women in a café the other week that I was sat in, and she came up and she sat… — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
“Roosevelt fought hard for the United States to host the opening session [of the United Nations]; it seemed a magnanimous gesture to… — James Bamford Copy Share Image
“I'm curious,' he said casually. The amber in his green eyes was glowing. Perhaps not all traces of that beast-warrior were gone.… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
I came to nonfiction through journalism. My first book was journalism, and it was so frustrating to me, while I was writing… — Lucas Mann Copy Share Image
Gandalf: Confound it all, Samwise Gamgee. Have you been eavesdropping? Sam: I ain't been droppin' no eaves sir, honest. I was just… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You create silent enemies by revealing how much God had blessed you. There are people who are unhappy about your success and… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding 'like Princess Di') but the more thoughtful ones resent… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image