Quotes About Gossip

Members of the gentry and nobility migrated to Bath each summer to stroll along the Grand Parade, drive around the Royal Crescent, cavort at crowded balls and gossip over tea about whom they had seen and with whom; taking the waters for real or imagined complaints was an optional extra

Evil report, with time and chance to help it, travels patiently, and travels far.

My eyes have lost nothing yet, at any rate, though I am five-and-thirty; the poor man actually blushed when I looked at him! What sort of colour do you think he would have turned, if one of the little birds in the garden had whispered in his ear, and told him the true story of the charming Miss Gwilt?

But mostly they just sat there, cemented in place by their secretions of chatter.

But we don't live in a perfect world. We live in a world where gossip passes for news, and sensationalism passes for journalism. - Christina McCall

O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell.

So the next day we all said, She will kill herself; and we said it would be the best thing.

So the next day we all said, "She will kill herself"; and we said it would be the best thing.

There were stories that the King was dying, that he was already dead, that he had been dead long since, that he was fine.

Be not hasty to believe flying reports to the disparagement of anyone.

Democracy was wrong, Kahn declared, when "it countenances government commissions giving to endless innuendo and irresponsible gossip the place and the scope that belong to trustworthy testimony.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles

What is told in the ear of a man is often heard 100 miles away.

The man who comes with a tale about others has himself an ax to grind.

A friend of a friend . . ." Have you ever noticed that our friends' friends have much more interesting lives than our friends themselves?

You leave a rumor long enough, give it the right soil, and it'll grow into a fact . . .

Rumors in Thailand don't have fathers or mothers. They're orphans of loan sharks, con men, streetwalkers, and fortune tellers. No one claims them until they become legitimate.

Nicht einmal der Teufel kann so scharfe Augen haben wie Nachbarn.

I would rather they did not speak of it at all, until I am out of the district." Mrs. Bennet was all amazement. "Until you are out of the district, child! What else are people to speak of when they hear you are to marry a man so rich, so highly placed in society, so... rich?

She found Safiye leaning against an oil lantern out in the garden and saw for herself that she wasn't the only foolish woman in the world, or even at that party, for Safiye had Lucy's highly polished bangle in her hand and was turning it this way and that in order to catch fireflies in the billowing, transparent left sleeve of her gown.

though once more there were whisperings that the imperial sisters should not stoop so low in their friendships and that they looked scruffy and 'unroyal'.28

BUCKINGHAM PALACE. Vacancy in the central wash-up of the main kitchen, for female applicants only. Non-residential. . . . Apply in writing to: Master of the Household, Buckingham Palace, London SW 1 Wouldn't you like to take that job for one day, just to listen to the gossip?

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, an they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

Ha, ha, ha: love and scandal are the best sweetners of tea.