Busybodies Quote by George Eliot Download Open image “Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.” — George Eliot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Busybodies
When I fight with you , I'm really fighting for us . If I didn't care , I wouldn't bother — Spido Copy Share Image
Why don't I just hand you my panties and be done with it. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Mr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
The one prediction that never comes true is, 'You'll thank me for telling you this. — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
You know how some people are - they always feel they have to do things for other people's good, no matter what happens to… — Frances Parkinson Keyes Copy Share Image
Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion. — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
Nest of Soviet fellow travelers clacking busybodies in a Soviet jellyfish front, sitting here in Leesburg oozing out their funny little propaganda and making… — Lyndon LaRouche Copy Share Image
People used to complain about 'the idle rich.' But the idle rich did not do the kind of harm being done by today's busybody… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
People who seek political power are, with exceptions too rare to matter, never to be trusted; at best, such people are vain and officious busybodies. People who actually achieve political power are to be trusted even less than those who seek it without success; winning elections requires a measure of deceitfulness and Machiavellian immorality that no decent person comes close… — Donald J. Boudreaux Copy Share
Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image