Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“When someone offers you lines like that, he must be Mephistopheles and you must be Faust. You know you shouldn't succumb to such language,…

— William Logan

“Early in my life, I learned to eavesdrop. I was driven to this ignoble practice because people seldom told me anything worth knowing.”

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“For nearly sixty years I have eavesdropped with impunity on the lives of people who do not exist.”

— Diane Setterfield

“No, certainly not. There I should find people who would try to force me to understand things of which I would prefer to remain…

— Alexander Dumas

“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”

— Albert Einstein

“But I also believe that a person's character can be revealed within moments of the acquaintance, unless he purposely tries to hide it".”

— Jennifer Clark and Stephonie Williams

“There are people who are drawn to secrets as ants are to jam. Fausta's one of them. She searches out all things unspoken and…

— Helen Oyeyemi

“Your mind is filled with ample secret abilities not known to you, keep it active by shutting down disbelieve.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“If I were to write some of the strange things that come under my eyes they would not be believed.”

— Cora M. Strayer

“They spoke with the finality of omniscient illiterates.”

— Mikhail Iossel

“Perhaps the habit of intrigue is catching--in the air or the walls. Like secret passages, only in the mind.”

— Susan Kenney

“...Don't insult readers by questioning the extent of their imaginations. Most need only to be nudged to solve a good mystery.”

— Peggy Kopman-Owens