Peeping Quotes
32 quotes by 30 authors
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Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
— John Perry Barlow
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I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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To speculate without facts is to attempt to enter a house of which one has not the key, by wandering aimlessly round and round, searching…
— Julian Huxley
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I was getting dressed and a peeping tom looked in the window, took a look and pulled down the shade.
— Joan Rivers
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Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.
— Arthur Koestler
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We've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people ought to do is get outside their own house and look in for a change. Yes…
— Thelma Ritter
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The thing about being a songwriter, once you realize you are one, is that to provide ammo, you start to become an observer. ... You're…
— Keith Richards
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Don’t go searching for a subject, let your subject find you. You can’t rush inspiration. … Once your subject finds you, it’s like falling in…
— Colson Whitehead
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O Spirit of the Summertime! Bring back the roses to the dells; The swallow from her distant clime, The honey-bee from drowsy cells. Bring back…
— William Allingham
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Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.
— Kenneth Tynan
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Peeping through my keyhold I see within the range of only about 30 percent of the light that comes from the sun; the rest is…
— Annie Dillard
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Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to…
— Jim Bishop
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Life is like a rose, peeping through the hardships of life to bloom with color.
— Stephanie
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What's the difference between a pickpocket and a peeping tom? A pickpocket snatches watches.
— Redd Foxx
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You never know what peace is until you walk on the shores or in the fields or along the winding red roads of Prince Edward…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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For Heaven's sake discard the monstrous wig which makes the English judges look like rats peeping through bunches of oakum
— Thomas Jefferson
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Night, like a giant, fills the church, from pavement to roof, and holds dominion through the silent hours. Pale dawn again comes peeping through the…
— Charles Dickens
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The eyes of spring, so azure, Are peeping from the ground; They are the darling violets, That I in nosegays bound.
— Heinrich Heine
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Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door; Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn Disturbs…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tower high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Who Wrote These Peeping Quotes
30 authors contributed a total of 32 Peeping Quotes, led by these top contributors: