Quotes About Gossip

When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.

Diana: "Christina said the strangest thing." – Lyon: "Of course she did.

They said he killed his first wife. Papa said maybe she needed killing.

In the absence of clear knowledge, rumours have abounded and lies have been invented and believed.

But I was tempted to let rumors fly, like keyhole whisperings.

That is all you can think of: what people will say! One goes from one end of the world to the other to hear the same story. Does it matter what people say?

if a person is willing to listen to gossip they are also willing to spread it.

My words, sometimes even my lack of words, have caused me much pain over the years. It hasn't always been that I have gossiped or lied. Sometimes I just talk too much. Or I repeated the words of others, which I should not have. Other times I have tried to say the right thing, but it came out the wrong way. Or I have said the right thing but in the presence of the wrong people or at the wrong time. There was just no shortage to the ways I could misuse my mouth.

Ho personalmente sezionato la lingua, e benché non abbia trovato muscoli specifici per i pettegolezzi, questo sembra lo scopo principale di quell'organo-almeno a corte.

If you wanted to know shit about a woman, all you had to do was ask the woman who was pretending to be her friend.

Granted Laura spent most of her time on Nextdoor but that was because people who lived year-round in beach towns were either busybodies, lunatics, and/or possible serial killers.

As Kate had told her Oma the night before, there was no society more viciously controlled by rumor than your local police force.

The thing about having a bad reputation is that folks will believe just about anything people say about you.

All of your friends told the sheriff that you danced because you loved dancing, not because you were trying to attract men.

the price for hearing gossip was having someone else gossip about you.

Lydia wondered how long it would take for Penelope to tell the other Mothers about the tragic death of Lloyd Delgado. Her father always said that the price for hearing gossip was having someone else gossip about you. She wished that he were still alive so she could tell him about the Mothers. He would've wet himself with laughter.

A standard feature of situation comedy has some form of the main character talking trash to someone about a husband, wife, girl friend, boy friend, boss, or acquaintance, only to see the listener's expression change in a telling way. She's/He's standing right behind me, right? is often the pained question of the speaker. (Loud canned laughter follows.)

Twittering just seemed to be people telling other people what they were doing--getting in the shower, making coffee. Who on earth wanted to know these things?...Babble and twitter. Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them.

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.

I have had only two men in four years while he appears every week on the newspapers with another woman.

A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters.

Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.

All think what other people think; All know the man their neighbor knows. Lord, what would they say Did their Catullus walk that way?