Gossip Quotes - Page 3

I get accused all the time of having a bigmouth. But if you ask me, guys gossip way more than girls do.

Meg Cabot

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

Laurence Sterne

Enter RUMOUR, painted full of ton

William Shakespeare

Everything about everybody was very soon known by everybody else.

Men and women walked casually about as they did on the main floor, every now and then stopping one another, exchanging pleasantries or scraps of relevantly irrelevant information. Gossip.

Gossip was usually a mindless distraction from a far too serious world.

You know I don’t listen to market gossip,” she began,“but it is hard not to hear it when my daughter’s name is mentioned.

Tracy Chevalier

Mon cher docteur! Do you not think I know the female mentality? The village gossip, it is based always, always on the relations of the sexes. If a man poisons his wife in order to travel to the North Pole or to enjoy the peace of a bachelor existence—it would not interest his fellow-villagers for a minute!

Agatha Christie

Rumour is a pipeBlown by surmises, jealousies, conjecturesAnd of so easy and so plain a stopThat the blunt monster with uncounted heads,The still-discordant wavering multitude,Can play upon it.

William Shakespeare

Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

RUMOUR:"Upon my tongues continual slanders ride,The which in every language I pronounce,Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.

William Shakespeare

I'm really not quite as frippery a fellow as you seem to think! I own that in my grasstime I committed a great many follies and extravagances, but, believe me, I've long since out-grown them! I don't think they were any worse than what nine out of ten youngsters commit, but unfortunately I achieved, through certain circumstances, a notoriety which most young men escape. I was born with a natural aptitude for the sporting pursuits you regard with so much distrust, and I inherited, at far too early an age, a fortune which not only enabled me to indulge my tastes in the most expensive manner imaginable, but which made me an object of such interest that everything I did was noted, and talked of. That's heady stuff for greenhorns, you know! There was a time when I gave the gossips plenty to talk about. But do give me credit for having seen the error of my ways!

Georgette Heyer

How she wished she had Elizabeth to herself for a little so they could discuss what Henry's real intentions were and also how high and mighty Penelope had acted at lunch and what a tremendous insult it was that she'd come at all and did anyone really think she was beautiful with those oversize features anyway.

Rumours began with the whispered gossip of native servants and spread quickly to the rest of the population.

The key to good eavesdropping is not getting caught.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.

Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping.

Diana Wynne Jones

I never gossip. I observe. And then relay my observations to practically everyone.

People always did like to talk, didn't they? That's why I call myself a witch now: the Wicked Witch of the West, if you want the full glory of it. As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

Gregory Maguire

There's a kind of radar that you get, after years of being talked about and made fun of by other people. You can almost smell it when it's about to happen, can recognize instantly the sound of a hushed voice, lowered just enough to make whatever is said okay. I had only been in Colby for a few weeks. But I had not forgotten.

If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.

Doesn't matter what you do, or how you do it, your neighbors are gonna talk about you ANYWAY.

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered, and yet almost never does any harm until some defender makes a controversy. Gossip's a nasty thing, but it's sickly, and if people of good intentions will let it entirely alone, it will die, ninety-nine times out of a hundred.

Booth Tarkington

It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.

Mercedes Lackey

I give boring people something to discuss over corn.

Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip.

What some invent the rest enlarge.

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.

Edgar Watson Howe

Whoever gossips to you will gossip of you.

Spanish Proverb

A little public scandal is good once in a while - takes the tension out of the news.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

Walter Wine hell

He that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

Bible

Let the greater part of the news thou hearest be the least part of what thou believest.

Francis Quarles

Foul whisperings are abroad.

William Shakespeare

I heard the little bird say so.

Tattlers also and busy bodies speaking things which they ought not.

Bible

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about.

And all who told it added something new And all who heard it made enlargements too.

Biography is higher gossip.

Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.

Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.

Gossip needs no carriage.

Russian proverb

Another good thing about gossip is that it is within everybody's reach And it is much more interesting than any other form of speech.

Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.

Saki

No gossip ever dies away entirely if many people voice it: it too is a kind of divinity.

Hesiod

Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously - the sweet subtle satisfaction without the risk.

The best-loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish could they hear all that their friends say in the course of a day.

John Hay

If you can't say something good about someone sit right here by me.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Women prefer speaking to talking.

Your world may think what it chooses...but really, opinion and gossip count for nothing at all against truth...

Newspapers, of course, need both news and fanfare. A blending of gossip and truth.

Someone said: "“Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are"or "tell me who is your friend and I'll tell you who you are" ...etc..My life experience oppose the above mentioned sayings.I would say, "Tell me how do you respond to gossip and I will tell you who you are" "Tell me how do you solve your problems and I'll tell you who you are

Marvel hates her because she's pretty and doesn't have any kids to worry about.

Unlock joy in any situation!True understanding and mutual respect do not bridge blames, destructive, negative criticisms, false excuses and gossips. To express disappointments and ill-feelings are normal however to gossip around certain people and events in order to put another person down and destroy one's credibility is a form of bullying whether one expresses it publicly or privately.Beware of segregation, regionalism, individualism, discrimination, stereotyping, destructive criticism, false accusations, biased wrong assumptions, prejudice, senseless comparison and unwanted competition because life is much more meaningful to live for where there is unity and harmony.

But that was last year,” I protested as we walked through school on Tuesday, three days beforeHalloween. “I’m serious, you know how people are. They forget about things.”“Oh, really?” Roux said, then turned and smiled at a brunette passing us. “Hey, Julia, what’s up?How are things?”“Slut,” Julia responded, and kept walking.Roux just looked back at me knowingly. “You were saying?

Let them judge you.Let them misunderstand you.Let them gossip about you.Their opinions aren’t your problem.You stay kind, committed to love, and free in your authenticity.No matter what they do or say,don’t you dare doubt your worthor the beauty of your truth.Just keep on shining like you do.

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