Meddle Quotes
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The foreign policy of the noble Earl,Lord Russell, may be summed up in two
truly expressive words: meddle and muddle.
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More Meddle Quotes
When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great, And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
Robert Louis Stevenson— 1885 A Child's Garden ofVerses, no.12,'Looking Forward'.
Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
— 1954 Gandalf.The Fellowship of the Ring, bk.1, ch.3.
Rough as a saw-edge, and hard as whinstone! The less you meddle with him the better.
emily brontë— Nelly Dean on Heathcliff (Ch. IV).
A good household manager, but not fit to meddle in the affairs of kings.
cromwell, thomas, 1st earl of essex— Henry VIII to the French ambassador, May 1538.
What I mean by living to one's-self is living in the world, as in it, not of it: it is as if no one know there was such a person, and you wished no one to know it: it is to be a silent spectator of the mighty scene of things, not an object of attention or curiosity in it; to take a thoughtful, anxious interest in what is passing in the world, but not to feel the slightest inclination to make or meddle with it.
william hazlitt— "On Living to One's-Self"
You know, my Dear, I never meddle in matters of Death; I always leave those Affairs to you. Women indeed are bitter bad Judges in these cases, for they are so partial to the Brave that they think every Man handsome who is going to the Camp or the Gallows.
john gay— Mrs. Peachum, Act I, sc. iv.
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
— J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring (1954), Book I, "Three is Company".
Stay away from those who "meddle with" or mock the Quran.
— Original: ?
— The Qur'an (?), Sura 6:68
