Walls Have Ears Quotes

• That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Woods, Fields, Medieval War

  Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Cowden Clarke (1835). “The Riches of Chaucer: In which His Impurities Have Been Expunged, His Spelling Modernised, His Rhythm Accentuated and His Obsolete Terms Explained; Also Have Been Added a Few Explanatory Notes and a New Memoir of the Poet”, p.103

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• What goes around, comes around.

  Willie Nelson

  Karma, Respect, Revenge

  Willie Nelson, Turk Pipkin (2006). “The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart”, p.33, Penguin

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• The walls have ears, better think before you throw that shoe.

  Elvis Presley

  Relationship, Wall, Thinking

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• Walls have ears. Doors have eyes. Trees have voices. Beasts tell lies. Beware the rain. Beware the snow. Beware the man You think you know. -Songs of Sapphique

  Catherine Fisher

  Song, Wall, Lying

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• It is notorious that we speak no more than half-truths in our ordinary conversation, and even a soliloquy is likely to be affected by the apprehension that walls have ears.

  Eric Linklater

  Wall, Ordinary, Ears

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• The walls have ears, ears that hear each little sound you make every time you stamp, throw a lamp.

  Elvis Presley

  Wall, Advice, Littles

  Song: The Walls Have Ears, Album: Girls! Girls! Girls!

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• As paredes tem ouvidos. (Portuguese: The walls have ears.)

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Wall, Ears, Portuguese

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