Gossip Quotes
Gossip is a policeman and a teacher. Without it, there would be chaos and ignorance.
I’ll tell you a piece of news--I hope you have not heard it before: for good, bad, or indifferent, one always likes to be the first to tell.
When people talk about you behind your back, they're not just behind you, they're beneath you.
If you don’t believe others can end your suffering, why believe they can end your happiness?
Persons of quality had devoted yester evening and much of the night to liquidating their holdings in the South Sea Company and gathering in clubs and coffeehouses to misinform one another.
There was a moment of silence and then Sutherland breathed, “But, darling! Gossip is the food of the gods.
First law of gossip - there's no point knowing something if somebody else doesn't know you know it.
Let them say what they wish behind your back. You need only be strong enough that they don't say it to your face.
Don't pretend like you know me 'cause you shook some neighborhood tree and got a li'l rotten fruit.
there are few things harder to imagine than other people’s conversations about yourself.
There isn't no call to go talking of pushing and pulling. Boats are quite tricky enough for those that sit still without looking for further for the cause of trouble.
Since even the most fastidious among us can rarely escape hearing salacious local gossip, it is as well to enjoy what cannot be avoided.
If talk is cheap, then being silent is expensive. And many people it seems, can't afford to buy into it.
Well, it all comes to this, there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is to live in our own.
Everybody's always doing the same old things--- you know, doing unto others before they can do unto you.
Maybe taming my tongue will be good for me in the end. But it's pretty hard when you've got a world filled with idiots from Drunkopolis.
Lebedev: ...There'll be a scandal, the tongues of the whole district will buzz with gossip, but it's better to go through a scandal, isn't it, than to destroy yourself for your whole life.
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement
In Morocco, " said Osman, "word spreads like a fire tearing through the depths of Hell.
You're not playing the game, " he said grimly. "English gossip isn't supposed to get back to the person it's about.
A peaceful refuge in which to rediscover each other, we thought, , not realizing that, while golf and fishing are Scotland's most popular outdoor sports, gossip is the most popular indoor sport.
Oh! Did you hear that Haley Spencer asked him to homecoming?” she exclaimed. “Of course I didn’t. You’re my source of gossip, remember?
After one of the lectures in Philadelphia, a woman asked Chesterton what made women talk so much, to which he replied, briefly, 'God, Madam'.
For acting thus you will remain innocent among the hissings of the serpents, and like a sweet strawberry you will receive no venom from the contact of venomous tongues.
While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.