Quotes About Gossip

It is perfectly monstrous, the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back.  It makes me far too conceited. lord

The middle classes air their moral prejudices over their gross dinner-tables, and whisper about what they call the profligacies of their betters in order to try and pretend that they are in smart society and on intimate terms with the people they slander.

The basis of every scandal is an immoral certainty

There Is Only One Thing In The World Worse Than Being Talked About, And That Is Not Being Talked About. – Oscar Wilde

Sólo hay en el mundo una cosa peor que el que hablen de uno, y es que no hablen.

LORD WINDERMERE: Well, that is no business of yours, is it, Cecil? CECIL GRAHAM: None! That is why it interests me. My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

Her clear conscience mocked rumour's mendacity, But we are a mob prone to credit sin.

Our Z's been fucking Loren Blake.

He Who Cannot Be Named is involved," I whispered. "Oh for shit's sake. This isn't Hogwarts," Aphrodite said.

Hey, Venus, I have two words for you,' Aphrodite said. Venus hesitated and glanced over her shoulder at her ex-roommate. Aphrodite smiled her best mean-bitch sneer and said, 'Re. Bound.' She paused and gave a bithy smirk and then said, 'Good luck with that.

I say, said Jimmy, as they moved away, who is that fellow Wesson? Oh, a man, said Molly vaguely. There's no need to be fulsome, said Jimmy. He can't hear.

Amazing how the soup pots of small towns are just waiting to boil over anything at all.

JUDGMENT Whenever you talk against another person for the love of gossip or through force of habit, remember, you will be judged by your Heavenly Father in the same way. Whatever you give out, the same will you attract. If you peddle the weaknesses of others, the Divine Law will mysteriously bring about the publicity of your own inner faults.

Topics... are what people talk about when they don't know each other well. Topics... are what men talk about.

Schopenhauer had said it years ago: "Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.

Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.

Crawford reacted in the fashion of small towns immemorial – some tongues wagged constantly, some people could not keep the pity and pleasure at someone else's misfortune out of their voices and gazes – but mostly the community folded its protective wings around the Weintraub family like an awkward mother bird shielding its young

At age ten, roughly the same percent of girls as boys are overtly aggressive, given to open confrontation when angered. But by age thirteen, a telling difference between the sexes emerges: Girls become more adept than boys at artful aggressive tactics like ostracism, vicious gossip, and indirect vendettas. Boys, by and large, simply continue being confrontational when angered, oblivious to these more covert strategies.

I talk shit about everybody and then sulk when they don't call me, my friends fall away like I've dropped them out of an airplane, my ex-boyfriend thinks I'm Hitler when he sees me.

complain and share certain stories—for instance, the one that Mrs. Wilk eventually confided to my mother about how, yes, she and the other Polish girls of her town, Rzeszów, had been taught to hate the Jews, but they didn't know any better—and also would gossip about the pani, the rich neighbor ladies who did not share their meals with their cleaning ladies; after this time, during which the two women

I don't mind men who kiss and tell. I need all the publicity I can get.

The subtle sauce of malice is often indulged in by maidens of uncertain age, over their tea.