Quotes About Gossip

I couldn't understand these town people. If they weren't staring at a fellow, they were laughing at him.

Talkers never write. They go on talking." There

Rules and Things Number 63: Never, Ever Say Something Bad About Someone You Don't Know--Especially When You're Around a Bunch of Strangers. You Never Can Tell Who Might Be Kin to That Person or Who Might Be a Lip-Flapping, Big-Mouth Spy.

Those who listen at closed doors rarely hear good of themselves," his mother had warned him as an adolescent.

You couldn't keep your mouth shut? I'm calling you Glitterhair from now on. Or Talksalot.

The girl must be looking for another hot-fudge shower," Ellen said. Then she, too, advanced on Leesha.

The eminent virtue of calumny is that it produces a vacuum around you without your having to raise a finger.

But the aspect of secrets is they leak out. If they didn't leak, they wouldn't be interesting.

So much news about the president's assets, the president's broadsides, the president's teeth, the president's business dealings, the president's shoes: it got boring.

Gossip is the human condition. It's like water. It finds its way through every crack and gap. It can't be contained.

Gossip is mischievous, light and easy to raise, but grievous to bear and hard to get rid of. No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it too is a kind of divinity.

No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: It too is a kind of divinity.

Every week I read about myself in a magazine, about something that I haven't done or some place that I've never been or don't even know. It's just gossip, rumors, egos, and politics.

They say she has all the gentlemen of the king's privy chamber, one after another. She don't like delay so they all stand in a line frigging their members, till she shouts, "Next.

Do you know why they say, 'There's no smoke without fire?' It's not just to give encouragement to people who like fires.

You know, people make a lot of money talking about me, don't they?

I thought news was despicable. It was publicly-supported gossip, invasion into the lives and sufferings of strangers, and the love of it represented an unconscionable desire to destroy the privacy of people whose lives had been thrown into turmoil.

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.

It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.

chooses with the men who seem to her agreeable, without being entered on the tablets of gossip. Certain coquettish women are capable of following a plan of this kind for seven years in order to gratify their fancies

Lontano dal centro dove brillano le grandi intelligenze, dove l'aria è carica di pensieri, dove tutto si rinnova, l'istruzione invecchia, il gusto si snatura come acqua stagnante. Per mancanza di esercizio, le passioni si rattrappiscono ingigantendo cose di nessuna importanza. Ecco perché l'avarizia e il pettegolezzo appestano la vita di provincia.

Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.

Liane Moriarty

It was interesting how a marriage instantly became public property as soon as it looked shaky.