Peeping Quotes

Antagoras the poet was boiling a conger, and Antigonus, coming behind him as he was stirring his skillet, said, "Do you think, Antagoras, that Homer boiled congers when he wrote the deeds of Agamemnon?" Antagoras replied, "Do you think, O king, that Agamemnon, when he did such exploits, was a peeping in his army to see who boiled congers?" (Plutarch)
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 know where everyone else has been. View quote
Jim Bishop
A man who worships in the Seventh-Day Adventist Church lives, psychologically, in a burning and continuous moment that never ends: the present is ever-lasting; the past is telescoped into the now; there is no future and at any moment Christ may come again and then the anxious tension of time will be no more.... [My grandmother] lived with all of us, yet, psychologically, she hovered somewhere off in space.... Always she seemed to be peeping out of Heaven into the world while living in the world. View quote
Richard Wright
Let the air strike our tune, Whilst we show reverence to yond peeping moon. View quote
Thomas Middleton
Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a peeping Tom, and I will show you the makings of a dramatist. View quote
Kenneth Tynan
Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. View quote
John Perry Barlow
I remember, I remember The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn; He never came a wink too soon Nor brought too long a day; But now, I often wish the night Had borne my breath away. View quote
Thomas Hood
We've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people oughta do is get outside their own house and look in for a change. View quote
John Michael Hayes
Every day or two I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The Feminist Me says that a woman's right to her own body should be inviolate at all times, free from fear of peeping paps. View quote
Julie Burchill
Sister, awake! close not your eyes, The day her light discloses; And the bright morning doth arise Out of her bed of roses. See the clear sun, the world's bright eye, In at our window peeping; Lo, how he blusheth to espy Us idle wenches sleeping! Therefore awake, make haste I say, And let us without staying All in our gowns of green so gay Into the park a maying. (Thomas Bateson)
[After Peeping Tom] When they got me on my own [the critics] gleefully sawed off the limb and jumped up and down on the corpse. View quote
Michael Powell (director)
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 windows and, giving place to day, sees night withdraw into the vaults, and follows it, and drives it out, and hides among the dead. View quote
Charles Dickens
Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity. View quote
Arthur Koestler