Gossip Quotes
A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.
A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.
In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, whic...
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Mr. Pilates was a bully and a narcissist and a dirty old man; he and Christopher got along very well...
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The expectation of intelligent gossip is a powerful motive for serious self-criticism, more powerful...
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A peaceful refuge in which to rediscover each other, we thought,, not realizing that, while golf and...
Show MoreNobody can buy a hat without gossiping.

Prince or commoner, tenor or bass,Painter or plumber or never-do-well,Do me a favor and shut your fa...
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There is a certain amount which I shan't mention publicly," Elizabeth said. "Things about Lucia whic...
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It was horrible of a young girl to let herself be talked about; however unfounded the charges agains...
Show MoreThe speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distr...
Show MoreYou're not playing the game," he said grimly. "English gossip isn't supposed to get back to the pers...
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Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip
There is, however, a far more common ailment among us—and that is pride from the bottom looking up. ...
Show MoreLet the greater part of the news thou hearest be the least part of what thou believest.
… I wonder why she hasn't spread the tale.""The only reason she would not is if she is ill or the st...
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But if you do know what is taught by plants and weather, you are in on the gossip and can feel truly...
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Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for ...
Show MoreWe cannot help the way in which people speak of us . . .

The longer you remain in Rome,' said [Cardinal] S.C., ‘the smaller you will find it.

History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.

Mary Webster was on the blower. Her advance agents saw Hank and me swimming in the middle of the riv...
Show MoreHe never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for l...
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To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women o...
Show MoreEvery week I read about myself in a magazine, about something that I haven't done or some place that...
Show MoreNo gossip ever dies away entirely if many people voice it: it too is a kind of divinity.
It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better,...
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There isn't no call to go talking of pushing and pulling. Boats are quite tricky enough for those th...
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Depend upon it you see but half. You see the evil, but you do not see the consolation. There will be...
Show MoreEvery man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
It does not come to me in quite so direct a line as that; it takes a bend or two, but nothing of con...
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Yet simple souls, their faith it knows no stint:Things least to be believed are most preferred.All c...
Show MoreThe best-loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish could they hear all that their frie...
Show MoreThis mannerism of what he'd seen of society struck Homer Wells quite forcefully; people, even nice p...
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In that day an educated rich man was acceptable. He might send his sons to college without comment, ...
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Gossip till the cows come home.
society is unconcerned with the aftermath of sensation.

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

Gossip is a policeman and a teacher. Without it, there would be chaos and ignorance.

What some invent the rest enlarge.
I heard the little bird say so.
Try not to pay attention to those who will try to make life miserable for you. There will be a lot o...
Show MoreI'm sure all that you've heard is just the usual gossip, invented to injure feelings rather than ill...
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Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth.
Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously - the sweet subtle satisfaction without the risk.
Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put togeth...
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You and your husband have, I think, been very fortunate to know so little, by experience, in your ow...
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It's a strange thing, to be talked about instead of talked to.

The fault I find with our journalism is that it forces us to take an interest in some fresh triviali...
Show MoreHow much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only ...
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Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
I mulled over the implications and decided not to waste my time worrying about what everyone else th...
Show MoreIt's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.

Among the dragons, the prohibition against asking direct questions did not exist, and-as Harrier dis...
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It drains the bars and cafes after hours, concentrates the wicked and the guilty along its chipped F...
Show MoreThese are the few ways we can practice humility:To speak as little as possible of one's self.To mind...
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Persons of quality had devoted yester evening and much of the night to liquidating their holdings in...
Show MoreAnother good thing about gossip is that it is within everybody's reach And it is much more interest...
Show MoreIf there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly h...
Show MoreThere is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about and that is not being talked abo...
Show MoreScandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

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

Since even the most fastidious among us can rarely escape hearing salacious local gossip, it is as w...
Show MoreThese are treacherous times, and I know how easily perceptions can be twisted by a single word spoke...
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Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.
people who believed the world to be an undignified,inglorious place, and who spent their evenings an...
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You don't have to watch 'Gossip Girl' to have an attitude.
Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.

Gossip is passing on information when you are neither part of the problem nor part of the solution.

In a very real way, one writes a story to find out what happens in it. Before it is written it sits ...
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There's a kind of radar that you get, after years of being talked about and made fun of by other peo...
Show MoreWhat the hell does this say about India? Appearances are more important than truths. Gossip is more ...
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The fact that none of these civic worriers had ever heard of such a case was unimportant, because th...
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Gossiping's part of witchcraft,' said Tiffany. 'They're checking to see if they've gone batty yet.

Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.
Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.
Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.
Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.
Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.
Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.
Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.
Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.
Hence, when his name was casually mentioned by neighboring yeomen, the listener said, "Ah, Clym Yeob...
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...[She] was not nearly so intrusive. If she happened to observe the comings and goings of her frien...
Show MoreYou know I don’t listen to market gossip,” she began,“but it is hard not to hear it when my daughter...
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He had to accept the fate of every newcomer to a small town where there are plenty of tongues that g...
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[He] had to submit to the fate of every newcomer in a small town, where many tongues talk but few he...
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In a little town, there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.

True or false, that which is set of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and abov...
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Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.
Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.
Latchkey! I mean . . . I want to talk to you . . .' He fell silent, glancing behind him and shifting...
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They made burning statements with questions, and killing tools out of laughs. It was mass cruelty. A...
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I never gossip - but after all, a tongue is given one to speak with, and I'm not deaf mute.That you ...
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Mon cher docteur! Do you not think I know the female mentality? The village gossip, it is based alwa...
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... go down to the country, take a house, get interested in local politics, in local scandal, in vil...
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Because instant and credible information has to be given, it becomes necessary to resort to guesswor...
Show MoreDespair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:
