Quotes About Gossip

A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.

Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.

There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink

Washington newspaper men know everything.

I've... been accused of being involved with every man I'm ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain't. I never tell if I have.

As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.

A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.

A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.

A new biography of Madonna came out last week, and apparently the biography lists all the men she's slept with. The book is apparently called the Manhattan Telephone Directory.

In the Year 2000 men will finally discover that the reason women go to the bathroom in pairs... is to make out.

Fools make news, and wise men carry it.

... you simply can't imagine what men will say!

There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth

We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.

When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, "I'll lay my life," said he, "somebody hath told him I am dead, for he can speak well of no man living.'

I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.

Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.

I heard a rumor that your mom and dad ran away from home.

He works at the kennel with Nana," Ben piped up. "And I think him and Mom are dating." At that, a stillness fell over a throng of admirers, punctuated by a few uncomfortable coughs.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

When will money not come to one? It is when he speaks ill of others and scandalizes. Money will come to the one who has purity of mind, body and speech.

A rumor is usually a lie that the media can legally profit from.

A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation.

Ignorant people, whispering cruel rumors, her mother whispered. Pay them no mind.