Gossip Quotes

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement

Don't talk about the problem. Be a part of the solution.

In Morocco," said Osman, "word spreads like a fire tearing through the depths of Hell.

You really love to gossip, don't you?” he asked, wishing she had brought him a glass of wine.“Yes, I suppose I do,” she answered, sounding surprised at the realization. “You think that's why I love reading novels so much?

Donna Leon

It was uncertain. She was in her early forties. Breast cancer. No one could identify exactly how everyone had come to know this fact. Was it a fact? Some people called it rumor. But in fact there was no such thing as rumor. There was fact, and there was what did not come up in conversation.

Joshua Ferris

You're not playing the game," he said grimly. "English gossip isn't supposed to get back to the person it's about.

Elaine Dundy

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.

Diana Gabaldon

Count Olaf sounds like an awful person. I hope he is torn apart by wild animals someday. Wouldn't that be satisfying?

Lemony Snicket

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?

Rebecca Donovan

When they're talking about me they're letting someone else rest.

Debra Webb

Did you ever hear the Oriental proverb, "The dogs bark but the caravan passes on"? Let them bark, Scarlett. I fear nothing will stop your caravan.

Margaret Mitchell

A good word will spread in the grapevine, bringing forth clusters of grapes and the benevolent of wine; a bad word will spread withering the vines, and choke the potential grapes.

Anthony Liccione

After one of the lectures in Philadelphia, a woman asked Chesterton what made women talk so much, to which he replied, briefly, 'God, Madam'.

Ian Ker

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.

Francis de Sales

Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing.

William Shakespeare

It was only too bad that to gossip and support mean ideas was easier and more enjoyable, really, than to keep quiet and know in silence that the true story can never be told, articulated in a way that will tell the whole truth. Even if it is better to be quiet, quietness will never reign. People talked, even the best of them.

Amanda Coplin

[He] had to submit to the fate of every newcomer in a small town, where many tongues talk but few heads think.

Victor Hugo

Few people are spoken of in the way they would choose

Anonymous

Spreading rumours is our national past time

Monica Ali

A Gossip is a dung beetle in disguise ....

M. Jackson

Gossips are like ants” she caressed his head “the moment you spot one, there are already many anthills around but don’t look for them because if you do, you’ll find them and they in turn would bite you and cause you pain, and pain would cause you to lose focus.

S.A. David

Everybody's always doing the same old things--- you know, doing unto others before they can do unto you.

Michael Lee West

8 April 1891The obscenity of nostrils and mouths; the ignominious cupidity of smiles and women encountered in the street; the shifty baseness on every side, as of hyenas and wild beasts ready to bite: tradesmen in their shops and strollers on their pavements. How long must I suffer this? I have suffered it before, as a child, when, descending by chance to the servant's quarters, I overheard in astonishment their vile gossip, tearing up my own kind with their lovely teeth.This hostility to the entire race, this muted detestation of lynxes in human form, I must have rediscovered it later while at school. I had a repugnance and horror for all base instincts, but am I not myself instinctively violent and lewd, murderous and sensual? Am I any different, in essence, from the members of the riotous and murderous mob of a hundred years ago, who hurled the town sergeants into the Seine and cried, 'String up the aristos!' just as they shout 'Down with the army!' or 'Death to the Jews!

Jean Lorrain

Gossip never goes away, no matter where you are in life.

Miranda Kenneally

The news is glorified gossip.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There is one more thing," said Mr. Peabody. "Now you must go and pick up all the feathers." ... "I don't think it's possible to pick up all the feathers," Tommy replied. "It would be just as impossible to undo the damage that you have done by spreading the rumor that I am a thief," said Mr. Peabody. "Each feather represents a person in Happyville." ... "Next time, don't be so quick to judge a person. And remember the power of your words.

Madonna

Oh, you mean fairy gossip, Eric,” she giggled. “I get the picture,” she said fluttering her lacy wings. “Don’t look so sad, Eric. There isn’t a day that passes when your nosy beak doesn’t find its way into someone’s business. I’m sure you’ll find the best-ever story before

Caz Greenham

The recitation of grievances was strange balm.

Regina O'Melveny

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.

A.J. Jacobs

I'm sure all that you've heard is just the usual gossip, invented to injure feelings rather than illuminate truth.

Joyce Carol Oates

Never speak about private affairs for the general public to hear.

Habeeb Akande

Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.

Jennie Churchill

Worse than talking with a mouthful, is gossiping with a mouthful!

Anthony Liccione

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.

Anton Chekhov

That woman could spread gossip faster than the flu in a whorehouse.

Jean Oram

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.

Neal Stephenson

Whoever gossips to you will gossip of you"; "It is easier to be critical than correct"- avoid criticism about other officers, and never vent destructive criticism of your service, your unit, or your superiors.

Kenneth W. Estes

There was a moment of silence and then Sutherland breathed, “But, darling! Gossip is the food of the gods.

Andrew Holleran

First law of gossip - there's no point knowing something if somebody else doesn't know you know it.

Ben Aaronovitch

Knowledge is currency here....

Joanne Harris

Let them say what they wish behind your back. You need only be strong enough that they don't say it to your face.

Courtney Milan

Don't pretend like you know me 'cause you shook some neighborhood tree and got a li'l rotten fruit.

Lauren Francis-Sharma

there are few things harder to imagine than other people’s conversations about yourself.

Jonathan Franzen

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.

J.R.R. Tolkien

Mud Slinging is so much fun,when you do it to others. But remember the day someone else does the same to you,youll realise how bad the mud in your mouth tastes. Think twice before you go around ruining the reputation of others. Because what goes around comes around for sure.

Rachitha Cabral

You and your husband have, I think, been very fortunate to know so little, by experience, in your own case or in that of your friends, of the wicked recklessness with which people repeat things to the disadvantage of others, without a thought as to whether they have grounds for asserting what they say. I have met with a good deal of utter misrepresentation of that kind. And another result of my experience is the conviction that the opinion of "people" in general is absolutely worthless as a test of right and wrong. The only two tests I now apply to such a question as the having some particular girl-friend as a guest are, first, my own conscience, to settle whether I feel it to be entirely innocent and right, in the sight of God; secondly, the parents of my friend, to settle whether I have their full approval for what I do. You need not be shocked at my being spoken against. Anybody, who is spoken about at all, is sure to be spoken against by somebody: and any action, however innocent in itself, is liable, and not at all unlikely, to be blamed by somebody. If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much

Lewis Carroll

A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.

Ella Leya

Astonishing how tea opens the ears.

Michelle Franklin

Scuttlebutt is one of the most overlooked acts that can decrease one's sagacity

Sagey Malik

Since even the most fastidious among us can rarely escape hearing salacious local gossip, it is as well to enjoy what cannot be avoided.

P.D. James

If talk is cheap, then being silent is expensive. And many people it seems, can't afford to buy into it.

Anthony Liccione

It's a strange thing, to be talked about instead of talked to.

Maggie Stiefvater

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.

L.M. Montgomery

In Russia everything is a secret, but there is no secrecy.

Robert K. Massie

You must learn to ignore what people say,” Sebastian murmured, coming to her. Standing behind her, he rested his fingers lightly on her shoulders, causing her to start a little. “You’ll be much happier that way.” Suddenly his voice was tipped with amusement. “I’ve learned that while gossip about others is often true, it’s never true when it is about oneself.

Lisa Kleypas

Coinman lets out another legendary explosive from his hindquarters!

Pawan Mishra

Chumaka ended with a quotation from a play that Jiro favored. “ ‘Small acts partner small houses and small minds'.

Raymond E. Feist

Remember, every time you open your mouth to talk, your mind walks out and parades up and down the words.

Edwin H. Stuart

Ruby's was where I'd long picked up delicious bits and pieces of small-town troubles, and of course, Ramona Jean was my very best source.

Steven Norton

In a little town, there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.

Victor Hugo

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