Social Intrusion Quotes

All I wanted was to be left alone. They abhor a vacuum, other people. You find a quiet corner where you can hunker down in peace, and the next minute there they are, crowding around you in their party hats, tooting their paper whistles in your face and insisting you get up and join in the knees-up.

Sometimes people go into my business because they like to drink, which - that's insane.

How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.

Some people can sometimes really invade your space and kind of never leave you alone.

There was a time when an ordinary American could close the door and keep the world at bay. Now the world comes elbowing in every time you go online.

A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.

She seemed to think that one of the perks of marriage was that it gave you rights of comment and intrusion over single people's love lives.